Levine v. Marcus
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by the payee against one of two joint and several indorsers of a promissory note for five hundred dollars, to recover the amount thereof, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County and tried to the jury before Smith, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $557, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtRoraback, J.
This is an action brought by the plaintiff, as payee of a promissory note, against Louis Marcus, who, with one Joseph Goldenthal, had indorsed the note in question. The defendant, in his defense, contended that there had been a material alteration in the note after he had indorsed it, and that the note was given for a greater sum than was loaned to the plaintiff, to evade the provisions of a Public Act relating to usury. Public Acts of 1907, p. 838, Chap. 238.
Upon the trial of these issues the defendant, in his own behalf, testified upon his direct examination that the plaintiff first brought…
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