Williams v. . First National Bank of Syracuse
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered December 6, 1899, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict and an ordór denying a motion for a new trial.
1Per curiam
The plaintiff sought to recover $2,000, the amount of his deposit in the defendant’s bank. The defense was that the defendant had applied the deposit in payment of the plaintiff’s past due note made by the plaintiff and others severally for the same amount. The question of fact was whether the plaintiff signed the note at the request of the bank made through its cashier for the accommodation of a railroad company, out of whose bonds in the custody of the bank it promised to pay the note.
The trial court submitted the case to the jury in a charge to which the defendant took no exception. The…
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