Ferguson v. Hamilton
New York Supreme Court
APPEAL hy the defendant from a judgment entered upon the report of a referee. The action was brought hy the holder against the maker of a promissory note, dated November 25, 1858, for $104 and interest, payable to Hiram Hale, or bearer, one year after date.
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APPEAL hy the defendant from a judgment entered upon the report of a referee. The action was brought hy the holder against the maker of a promissory note, dated November 25, 1858, for $104 and interest, payable to Hiram Hale, or bearer, one year after date. The defendant alleged in his answer, that the note was made hy him for the purpose of raising money hy a discount thereof, and not for any consideration moving from Hale, the payee, to the defendant, nor upon any business transaction whatever between the said Hale and the defendant; that the said note, at the making thereof, was placed in…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Bockes, J.
The action being at issue was referred by consent of parties to a referee to hear and determine. The referee made his report in the plaintiff’s favor, on which judgment was entered. The defendant filed exceptions to the findings and conclusions of the referee, but no case was made. The papers before us are those, only, constituting the judgment roll proper; that is, the summons, complaint, answer, order of reference, report of referee and judgment, with the addition of the exceptions to the referee’s report, taken and filed after judgment. There is no case giving a…
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