Williams v. First National Bank of Syracuse
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the' defendant, the First National Bank of Syracuse,, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of .the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the-31st day of October, 1898, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 2d day of November, 1898, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hardin, P. J.:
The plaintiff brings this action to recover a deposit-of $2,000 in the defendant corporation. Against that deposit the defendant set. up that at One time it held a promissory note for $2,000 made by M., S. Williams, H. L. Williams and L. A. Williams- to the order of L; A. Williams, or bearer, dated December 27, 1892, given in renewal of a note dated September 21, 1892, for $2,000, the name ■ of the payee being left blank; and claimed,that after the last note in the series became due it charged- it to the plaintiff’s account, and insisted that the same was an offset against the…
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