Schaffer v. Levenson Wrecking Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

This is the defendant’s appeal in an action on a book account brought in the District Court of the city of Hohoken, in which the plaintiff had judgment.

The action was brought by H. Allen Schaffer, trustee in bankruptcy of the Northampton Cement Company.

At the trial the defendant made a motion to nonsuit upon the ground that the plaintiff had used the initial H instead of his Christian name.

We are of opinion that the motion was properly denied.

By the common law, since the time of the Norman conquest, a legal name has consisted of one…