Legal Opinion
Auffmordt v. Stevens
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided October 15, 1878PublishedCited by 2 opinions
Bill for a foreclosure; brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County. Facts found by a committee and decree passed, (Quiver, J.) Motion in error by respondent. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPark, C. J.
The question in this case turns upon the construction to be given to the contract made between the parties by the following correspondence:
“Norwalk, January 21st, 1876. Messrs. C. A. Auffmordt & Co., New York. I ask your kind consideration of the following proposition regarding the note of James L. Stevens you now hold for some twenty-three hundred dollars, endorsed by me, namely, that it be divided into four notes of equal amount and payable with interest, as follows: the first payable August 15th, 1876; the second, February 15th, 1877; the third payable August 15th, 1877; the fourth…
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