Graves v. Merry
New York Supreme Court
Assumpsit on a promissory note; tried at the Oneida circuit, October, 1825, before Williams, C. Judge ; when the following facts appeared : The defendants executed a promissory note, on the 19fA of March, 1824, dated that day, and payable to the plaintiffs, by the style of Graves, Griffin & Co., for $587, on which was endorsed a payment.
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Assumpsit on a promissory note; tried at the Oneida circuit, October, 1825, before Williams, C. Judge ; when the following facts appeared : The defendants executed a promissory note, on the 19fA of March, 1824, dated that day, and payable to the plaintiffs, by the style of Graves, Griffin & Co., for $587, on which was endorsed a payment. On the od of December, 1823, Griffin, one of the plaintiffs, signed a note, of that date, Graves, Griffin & Co., payable to the order of John Johnson & Sons, of the city of New-York, for $472,65; and on the Wth of October, 1824, it was endorsed by them to the…
1Opinion of the Court
Curia, per
Woodworth, J.
The question to be decided, is, whether the note signed by Joel Griffin, in the co-partnership name, to Johnson & Sons, was obligatory on all the plaintiffs.
In the notice of set off, it is stated that the defendants would, on the trial, give in evidence, that on the 3d of December, 1823, certain persons, under the name of John Johnson & Sons, were partners in the city of New-York, and that the palintiffs on that day, at New-York, made a promissory note, the hand writing of one of them being thereto subscribed ; and thereby promised to pay John Johnson & Sons, or order,…
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