A.E. McBee Company, Inc. v. . Root Knight Co., Inc.

Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered July 13, 1916, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action upon a promissory note. Defendant, appellant, alleged that he was an indorser upon a note of the Root Knight Company held by the Harriman National Bank and in order that the same might be renewed in his absence, he indorsed a new note of that company for $2,500 and left the same with the president of the company for the purpose of renewing the note which was about to fall due at the…