Shipman v. Kelley
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs,. Chauncey N. Shipman and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 2d day of April, 1896, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial before the court without a jury at the Erie Circuit, on the 23d day of September, 1895.
1Opinion of the Court
Adams, J.:
In the year 1894, the plaintiffs, who were co-partners, were engaged in business in the city of Buffalo in this State as wholesale dealers in coal, and the firm of Harwood- & Irish was engaged in selling the same commodity at retail "at the village of Skaneateles.
In order that the last-mentioned firm might obtain credit of the plaintiffs for such coal as it might purchase of them, the defendant-, on the 25th of January, 1894, executed and delivered to the plaintiffs his certain instrument in writing óf which the following is a copy :
“ Skaneateles, N. Y., Jan. 25, 1894.
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