Knapp v. Tidewater Coal Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by the payees against the maker and indorsers of two promissory notes, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Fairfield County, Shumway, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiffs for $3,492 as against the defendant the Stamford Tidewater Coal Company, from which that defendant appealed. The plaintiffs, as copartners, are wholesale dealers in coal. The Tidewater Coal Company, a New York corporation, buys and sells coal at wholesale.
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Action by the payees against the maker and indorsers of two promissory notes, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Fairfield County, Shumway, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiffs for $3,492 as against the defendant the Stamford Tidewater Coal Company, from which that defendant appealed. The plaintiffs, as copartners, are wholesale dealers in coal. The Tidewater Coal Company, a New York corporation, buys and sells coal at wholesale. Among its customers is the Stamford Tidewater Coal Company, a Connecticut corporation engaged in selling coal at retail. All of its…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
Copies of the two negotiable promissory notes upon which this action, in two counts, was brought, are annexed to the complaint. They show that the Tidewater Coal Company, a New York corporation, hereinafter referred to as the New York company, was the maker, and Edward Knapp and Company, the plaintiffs, the payees, and that the notes bore the indorsement, in order, of the two individual defendants, and of the defendant the Stamford Tidewater Coal Company, hereinafter referred to as the Stamford company, which last indorsement was made in the name of the company “by Bayard N. Cole, President.”…
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