Smith v. Hedges
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Dayton Hedges, from two judgments of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, both entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 27th day of January, 1915, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from two orders, both entered in said clerk’s office on said day denying motions for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, P. J.:
These two actions were tried together and the defendant’s appeals are united. The plaintiff, assignee of the Pioneer Iron Works, payee, brought the actions upon as many promissory notes of the defendant. The Trial Term, upon motion of the plaintiff, struck out the parts of the answers that set up separate and distinct defenses, tried the issue — as to the assign*350ment of the notes — and directed verdicts for the plaintiff. The opinion of Mr. Justice Crane, who presided at Trial Term, that was handed down upon denial of the motion to set aside the verdicts, thoroughly and correctly…
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