Roe v. Nichols
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Adaline Nichols, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Suffolk on the 23d day of April, 1895, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at the Suffolk Circuit, and also from an order dated the 15th day of April, 1895, and entered in said clerk’s-office-denying the defendant’s motion fora new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J. :
The defendant was sued as the maker of a promissory note, dated at Patchogue, N. Y., November 4, 1889, whereby she promised to pay to William Roe or order, on demand, the sum of $1,060, with interest at six per cent. No question was raised as to the genuineness of this note. The defendant averred, however, that she received no consideration therefor and that she had been induced to sign it in ignorance of its amount and purport, upon the representation of the plaintiff, who conducted the transaction in which the note ■was given, that it was necessary to straighten up…
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