Marine Bank v. Clements
The Superior Court of New York City
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment entered on the verdict of a jury rendered on a trial had before Mr. Justice Woodruff, on the 27th of January, 1859. The plaintiffs sue as second indorsees of a note made by defendant, dated August 14, 1855, for $1,000, payable to the International Insurance Company or order, at the Bank of Commerce in New York, twelve months after its date.
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Appeal by the defendant from a judgment entered on the verdict of a jury rendered on a trial had before Mr. Justice Woodruff, on the 27th of January, 1859. The plaintiffs sue as second indorsees of a note made by defendant, dated August 14, 1855, for $1,000, payable to the International Insurance Company or order, at the Bank of Commerce in New York, twelve months after its date. The complaint alleges the making of the note; its terms; the indorsement and delivery of it by the payee; the plaintiffs’ ownership of it; that it is past due and wholly unpaid, and prays judgment for the amount of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court—Bosworth, Ch. J.
The plaintiffs sue as indorsees of a note made by the defendant; which note and the indorsement thereon, when produced in evidence at the trial, were as follows, viz.:
*170“ $1,000. New York, August 14, 1855.
“ Twelve months after date, I promise to pay the International Insurance Company, or order, for value received, one thousand dollars, payable at the Bank of Commerce in New York.
“NELSON CLEMENTS.”
(Indorsed) “For International Insurance Company,
Alanson Marsh, President."
The defendant during the progress of the trial, took exceptions to decisions admitting and…
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