Mercantile Factors Corp. v. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtFinch, J.
The question presented for decision by this appeal practically resolves itself into the inquiry whether a creditor may collect, by suit, from a debtor, in addition to the amount of the debt and interest and costs, also the reasonable value of an attorney’s fee in prosecuting the action, the action of the creditor being against the debtor as indorser of notes of third persons, pledged as collateral to secure a loan by the plaintiff to the defendant.
The plaintiff brought two actions, each upon a promissory note for the sum of $5,000, made by a third party to the order of the defendant as payee…
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