Connecticut Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Wead
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, the Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit Company, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff and the defendant Leslie C. Wead, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 18th day of January, 1901, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court after a trial at the New York Trial Term, as directs the dismissal of the complaint as to the defendant Leslie C. Wead.
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Appeal by the plaintiff, the Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit Company, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff and the defendant Leslie C. Wead, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 18th day of January, 1901, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court after a trial at the New York Trial Term, as directs the dismissal of the complaint as to the defendant Leslie C. Wead. Also an appeal by the defendant Charles K. Wead from so much of said judgment as directs that the plaintiff recover of the defendant Charles…
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
This action is upon a promissory note to recover (against indorsers) a balance claimed to be due on it, payments having been made on account, the last, apparently, in January, 1893. The defendants in their joint answer plead the six years’ Statute of Limitations. The. note bears date October 11,1889, and is payable four months after-date. The action was not begun until April, 1900. On the trial it appeared that the defendant Leslie C. Wead resided in the State of New York prior to February, 1890, in which month' he took up his residence in the State of Massachusetts, but he had…
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