Woodriff v. Hunter
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, John R. P. Wood riff and Francis W. J. Hurst, as sole acting executors of Edward S. Jaffray, deceased, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 28th day of February, 1901, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 1st day of March, 1901, denying the plaintiffs’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This action was originally brought by the receivers of E. S. Jaffray & Co., a firm doing business in the city of New York, to recover upon two promissory notes made by defendant on the 19th day of- April, 1895, and payable to the order of the receivers. The notes were subsequently assigned by the receivers to the executors of one of the partners, who were thereafter substituted as plaintiffs, but the complaint was not amended to show these facts. The answer contains no denial of any of the allegations of the complaint, but sets up a defense and counterclaim, consisting entirely…
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