Doniger v. Lasoff

Judgment and order unanimously reversed upon the law, with thirty dollars costs to appellant, and motion for summary judgment denied, with ten dollars costs.

If the wife of the payee presented the check for certification after it is claimed to have been transferred to a third party and also to the plaintiff, it is a circumstance which tends to show that the plaintiff is not a holder in due course, and was not a holder at all at that time, as he claims he was. Possession of a negotiable instrument indorsed in blank by the payee is presumptive evidence of the possessor’s title to it. (Hays v.…