Continental Credit Co. v. Ely
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Actioií by the indorsee against the maker to recover the amount of three promissory notes of $1,000 each, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Hartford County, Tuttle, Jfacts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $3,417, and appeal by the defendant.
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Actioií by the indorsee against the maker to recover the amount of three promissory notes of $1,000 each, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Hartford County, Tuttle, Jfacts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $3,417, and appeal by the defendant. The finding recites that the defendant entered into a contract on May 17th, 1913, with Tomlinson-Humes, Incorporated, of Chicago, by which it agreed to go over all of Mrs. Ely’s, defendant’s, pictures, mezzotints, and prints, and to clean and restore all pictures in her house in Washington, D. C., and to authenticate, through…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The assignments of error pressed are the following: 1. The refusal to correct and add to the finding. 2. The sustaining of the demurrer to defendant’s motion for a disclosure. 3. The denial of defendant’s motion for a stay of proceedings. 4. The holding, as matter of law, that plaintiff was a bona fide purchaser for value of these notes, and the failure to hold that plaintiff took the notes as collateral security for an usurious loan. 5. The failure to hold that defendant can avail herself of the defense of usury, and of the defenses of fraud and lack of consideration. 6. And in any event…
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