McLean v. Ryan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Dennis Ryan, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Orange on the 14th day of June, 1898, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an ordér entered in said clerk’s office on the 9th day of June, 1898, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
This action was brought on a promissory note against the defend-. ant as indorser. The plaintiff was a subsequent indorser, who, after default by the maker of the note, was compelled to take it up. The answer of the defendant denied knowledge or information suffi-; eient to form a belief as to the allegations in the complaint concerning the protest of the note and the notice to the indorsers. . It set np as an affirmative defense that the note was indorsed by him without consideration, for the accommodation of the maker, and also for the plaintiff and one Morrison, who were…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Nichols v. GoldsmithNew York Supreme Court · 1831
- Seneca County Bank v. . NeassNew York Court of Appeals · 1850
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