Legal Opinion

Carpenter v. . Ward

New York Court of Appeals

Decided March 5, 1864PublishedCited by 14 opinions

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the supreme, court, in the second district, in favor of the plaintiff, affirming a judgment entered on the report of a referee.

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This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the supreme, court, in the second district, in favor of the plaintiff, affirming a judgment entered on the report of a referee. The action was brought to recover the value of a quantity of lumber and coal, alleged to have been sold and delivered to the defendant by the plaintiffs, and was tried before a referee, by whom the following facts were found: That the. plaintiffs, during the year 1854, were coal and lumber merchants at White Plains; and from June, 1854, to January, 1855, the defendant was the owner of certain real estate, situate…

1Opinion of the Court

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] I discover only two exceptions in this case which require special remark. The first is that taken to the ruling of the referee in excluding Exhibit C, which is the examination of the witness Hanbold on a former occasion in supplementary proceedings. At that time he testified that neither William Ward nor the defendant was in anyway or manner interested with him in the manufacture of powder at the Bronx River Powder Mills in the county of Westchester. This was…

2Cited by14 opinions

  1. Schell v. . PlumbNew York Court of Appeals · 1874
  2. People v. . Van TasselNew York Court of Appeals · 1898
  3. People v. RyanNew York Supreme Court · 1889
  4. The SaranacDistrict Court, W.D. New York · 1904
  5. Effray v. MassonNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1892

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