Traders' National Bank v. Jones
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Frank Cazenove Jones, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 29 th day of June, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 29th day of June, 1904, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The action is brought to recover of the- defendant, -as indorser, the amount of two promissory notes and -protest fees. The question presented for determination is whether the evidence shows as matter of .law the giving of due notice of protest to the defendant. Both notes were made at Scranton, Penn., by the copartnership firm; of O, F. Beckwith & Co. of that city.'. They were payable -to the order of the defendant, indorsed by him and -then indorsed. by 'the makers and delivered- to the plaintiff before maturity at'whose-bank they were payable. The notary who.protested the…
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