Butt v. Hoge
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal by defendants from a judgment upon a trial before the court without a jury. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Hilton, J.
This action is upon a bill of exchange for £2000 sterling drawn by the defendants, to the order of the plaintiffs, upon a firm in London, accepted, and subsequently protested for non-payment. On the trial before Judge Beady, without a jury, it appeared that the bill became due, and was protested at London, on November 26th, 1857. It reached the plaintiffs here, by the first subsequent mail steamer which arrived, on December 14th, when the plaintiffs immediately went with it to the defendants at their place of business, saw William Hoge, and, laying the bill and protest…
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