Irvine v. New York Edison Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Frederick ¡B. Irvine, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of ¡New York on the 20th day of January, 1910, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of plaintiff’s case on a trial at the New York Trial Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 4tli day of February, 1910, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial…
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Appeal by the plaintiff, Frederick ¡B. Irvine, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of ¡New York on the 20th day of January, 1910, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of plaintiff’s case on a trial at the New York Trial Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 4tli day of February, 1910, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
This action is brought to recover the amounts paid by one of the plaintiff’s assignors, James Irvine, the accommodation indorser, upon a note made by the New York Equipment Company and indorsed for the benefit of the Block Lighting and Power Company, a domestic corporation, which, in February, 1900, was merged into another domestic corporation, the New York Gas, Electric Light, Heat and Power Company, pursuant to section 58 of the then Stock Corporation Law. The latter company was subsequently consolidated with the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York, its name…
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- Matter of Utica Nat. Brewing Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1897
- Klein v. . East River Electric Light Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1905
- Gale v. Troy & Boston RailroadNew York Supreme Court · 1889
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