Reed v. Spear
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, William N. Spear, from a judgment of the County Court of Chautauqua county in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Chautauqua on the 28th day of January, 1905, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 30th day of November, 1904, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hiscock, J.:
This case was brought on for trial before the county judge and a jury. At the close of the evidence each side moved for a direction of a verdict, and, therefore, any questions of fact or divergent inferences from the evidence are to be regarded as having been settled in favor of the plaintiff.
The action was brought against the defendant as indorser of a promissory note made by one Harry A. Lamkin, dated at Sinclair-ville, Chautauqua county, N. Y., August 9, 1900,. where'by said maker, for value received, promised “to pay Emma Reed, or bearer, Four Hundred Dollars and annual…
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