Soper v. St. Regis Paper Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the. defendant, the St. Regis Paper Company, from an order .of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 25th day of J une, 1902, directing judgment for the plaintiff upon the pleadings.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
This action was brought to recover on a promissory note of $2,000¿ made by defendant July 1, 1899, to the Forest Land and Mill Company, and thereafter transferred to the plaintiff, and was commenced August 23, 1901.. The defendant answered on August 23, 1901, interposing as a defense that the plaintiff and others, in the sale of a large tract of forest land in the Adirondacks, practiced a. fraud upon the defendant; that the note in question was given in part payment of the said land and was transferred to the plaintiff, with full knowledge of the alleged fraud, he being a party…
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