West Philadelphia Bank v. . Gerry
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from the order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department made January 22,1887, which affirmed an order of Special Term, granting a motion on the part of defendant Gerry, directing that the judgment herein be canceled and discharged of record as against him. The material facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDanforth, J.
It appears by tlxe motion papers that in May, 1875, the petitioner was a member of the firm of Gerry, Til-ton & Colwell, and, as such, indebted to the plaintiff upon a promissory note of that date, made by the firm for the sum of $2,569.73. It was not paid, and on the 10th of January, 1883, the plaintiff recovered judgment in the Supreme Court of this State against him and the other members of the firm. It also appears that on the 3d of August, 1878, he, then being a resident of the State of Massachusetts, filed in the proper court a petition that he be adjudged a bankrupt; that he was so…
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