Hodnett v. Gault
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Daniel E. Hodnett, as administrator,, etc., of Richard Hodnett, deceased, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Allegany on the 18th day of August, 1900, upon the report of a referee dismissing the. complaint at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
This action was commenced January 25, 1900, to recover the balance due on an account. Richard Hodnett was a farmer living at Hume, Allegany county, and the defendant was in the meat business at Olean. For several years Hodnett sold poultry and meat on credit to the defendant. Hodnett died March 28, 1887, and the plaintiff was appointed his administrator in 1899. After his death his widow attempted to collect the balance of the account unpaid, but received only a small amount of cash from the defendant. That *164the defendant is indebted to the plaintiff seems clear from his own…
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