Strasburger v. Myer Strasburger & Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Patrick J. Hangley, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 29th day of October, 1914, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying appellant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The recovery was upon a promissory note on the theory that the appellant was liable to the plaintiff as a prior indorser.
Myer Strasburger, deceased, was engaged in business in the borough of Manhattan, New York, as an insurance broker until his death on the 2d day of August, 1911. The appellant had been associated with him in that business. On the 5th day of November, 1911, a corporation was organized by the plaintiff, who was the widow of the decedent, and his son Samuel M. Strasburger, and the appellant under the name of Myer Strasburger & Co., Inc., with a capital of $5,000,…
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