Metropolitan Bank v. Engel
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Motion by the defendants, Adam Engel and another,'for a new trial upon a ease containing exceptions, ordered to be.heard at the Appellate Division in the .first instance upon the verdict of a jury in favor of the plaintiff rendered by direction of the court after a trial at the Erie Trial Term. John A. Schappert and Adam Engel were the only defendants who interposed answers.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
This action was commenced January 31, 1900, to recover, upon a promissory note of $3,000 given by the Mount Vernon Consumers’ Brewing Company, a domestic corporation of the city of New York, and dated December 9,. 1899, due forty-five days from its date to the order of Schaefer & Brother, and payable at the Nineteenth Ward Bank of New York city. The signature of the brewing company was attested by John A. Schappert, its president, and by O. A. Schaefer, its secretary and treasurer. The note was indorsed by the defendants Schappert and Engel at the instance of an officer of the…
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