Cooke v. Sinopoulo

This is an appeal by the executor and the administrator, respectively, of the estates of Charles B. Cooke and Alfred G. Smith, deceased, from an order which sustained a motion therefor and granted a new trial.

The testate and intestate, respectively, of the plaintiffs in error, by cross-petition in an action instituted by Leo J. Portman against H. R. Hollenback et al., sought to recover from John Sino-poulo an interest which had been assigned to them by Hollenback in a contract which has been executed by Sino-poulo to Hollenback, whereby the former agreed to pay the latter the sum of $15,000…