Cutts v. . Guild
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict, and affirming an order denying a motion for a new trial. This action was brought to recover damages for an alleged wrongful act of defendant in satisfying a judgment after he had assigned it.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict, and affirming an order denying a motion for a new trial. This action was brought to recover damages for an alleged wrongful act of defendant in satisfying a judgment after he had assigned it. The defendant, October 14, 1856, as assignee of the firm of O. Boyden & Co., of Newark, N. J., recovered a judgment in the Supreme Court of New York against M. Drury and S. Humphrey for $545.29. About the same time he recovered several…
1Opinion of the Court
Dwight, C.
The judge at the circuit withdrew all the questions contained in this case from the decision of the jury, except the single oiie of the amount of damages. His professed object was to enable a full review to be made of them in the appellate court. • He was requested to charge on the following points, among others: (1.) That if the jury believed that Mr. Dodge represented Crawford and Wheeler and Fuller, that the plaintiff cannot recover. (2.) That if they believed that Mr. Fuller was jointly interested with Mr. Crawford or Mr. Wheeler or botli of them in the purchase of the judgment,…
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