Baldwin's Bank v. Morris
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, Yates county. Action on a promissory note by Baldwin’s Bank of Penn Yan against W. T. Morris and others. Verdict for plaintiff. From an order denying a new trial, defendant Morris appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDwight, P. J.
The action, so far as this appeal is concerned, was on a promissory note for $500, dated February 28, 1883, made by one Farmer to the order of the Farmer Manufacturing Company, and indorsed by that com-*287pony, and also by Ealph T. Wood in the firm name of Wood, Butler & Morris. That firm name represented an existing copartnership, of which Wood and the defendant Morris were members, formed for the practice of the law, at the village of Penn Tan; and the question on this appeal is of the authority of Wood to bind the defendant Morris by the indorsement mentioned. The note was the second renewal…
2Cited by1 opinion
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