Froude v. Bishop
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Don 0. Bishop, as administrator, etc,, of Harriet A. Bishop, deceased, and Joseph Gr. White, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered- in the office of the clerk of the county of Oswego on the 15th day of April, 1897," upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 13th day of April, 1897, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
'Green, J. :
This action was brought to recover the amount of a joint and several promissory note, and two of the defendants set up the ■defense that they signed as sureties, and that the plaintiff liad, for a valuable consideration, agreed with the principal maker to extend the time of payment, and had, in pursuance of such agreement, .actually extended it. Evidence was given on behalf of fhe defendants to the effect that such an agreement, was made after the maturity of the note. The court instructed the jury, at the request of plains tiff’s counsel, that unless they found that there was an…
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