Fassin v. Hubbard
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiffs entered on a verdict. This action was brought against defendants, as indorsers of a .promissory note of $5,000, dated January 4, 1861, payable to the order of John H. Martin at the counting-house of Brander & Hubbard, in the city of Hew Orleans. Defendant Hubbard alone appeared and answered.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiffs entered on a verdict. This action was brought against defendants, as indorsers of a .promissory note of $5,000, dated January 4, 1861, payable to the order of John H. Martin at the counting-house of Brander & Hubbard, in the city of Hew Orleans. Defendant Hubbard alone appeared and answered. Defendants were in partnership doing business in Hew Orleans. In July, 1860, the business was discontinued, save the settling up and liquidation of its affairs.…
1Opinion of the CourtGrover, J.
The appellant, who only defends the action personally, indorsed the note as follows: “ Brander & Hubbard, old firm in liquidation.” The firm of Brander & Hubbard had been engaged largely in commercial business in New Orleans prior to July, 1860, at which time they discontinued business, except settling and closing up its affairs, and were succeeded in the commercial business by a new firm under the same name, of which the defendant, Hubbard, was a member. Although the former firm is said to have been dissolved in July, 1860, yet the case shows that it was continued so far as necessary for the…
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