Fielden v. Lahens
New York Court of Appeals
i Thomas Eielden and others sued Pierre Erangois Lahens and others in the superior court of the city of New York, on October 31,1844. The complaint was against 'the defendants, as alleged indorsers of three promissory-notes,-all dated May 35, 1844, two of them payable at ninety days, and one at sixty days from date; one for fourteen thousand dollars, one for thirteen thousand five hundred dollars, and the third for twenty-one thousand two hundred and twenty-one dollars and…
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i Thomas Eielden and others sued Pierre Erangois Lahens and others in the superior court of the city of New York, on October 31,1844. The complaint was against 'the defendants, as alleged indorsers of three promissory-notes,-all dated May 35, 1844, two of them payable at ninety days, and one at sixty days from date; one for fourteen thousand dollars, one for thirteen thousand five hundred dollars, and the third for twenty-one thousand two hundred and twenty-one dollars and forty-three cents, making in all forty-eight thousand seven hundred and twenty-one dollars and forty-three cents. They…
1Opinion of the CourtJ. M. Parker, J.
[After stating the facts.]—The questions considered and .decided by the referees, as their report shows, were: first, whether the firm of J. Lahens & Co. were liable upon the indorsements; and second, whether, if it was not, a separate judgment could be rendered in the action against Louis Emile Lahens, who made the indorsement.
The facts found, bearing upon the first question, are that the firm of J. Lahens & Co. was a mercantile firm; that Louis Emile Lahens, one of the copartners, made the indorsements in the name of the firm, for the accommodation of the maker, without consideration to the…
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