Herrman v. Leland
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal from a judgment of the City Court of the city of New York dismissing the complaint, with costs, upon motion of the defendant after a trial by jury.
1Opinion of the CourtPage, J.
Besolving all questions of fact most favorably to the plaintiff, as we must for the purposes of this appeal, it appears that the defendant employed the plaintiff as his agent for the purpose of assuming in his own name an indebtedness of the Buckley Bealty Construction Company, to a bank of which the defendant was president, the Buckley Company then being in a precarious financial condition and a doubtful recipient of the bank’s credit. Under this arrangement the bank loaned $80,000 to the plaintiff. The plaintiff then paid the Buckley Company’s indebtedness to the bank and received notes…
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