Legal Opinion

Hanna v. Lichtenhein

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided March 8, 1918Published

Appeal by the defendants, Louis Lichtenhein and another, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 27th day of November, 1917, denying their motion to overrule a demurrer to certain defenses set up in the answer and sustaining said demurrer.

1Opinion of the Court

Page, J.:

The complaint sets forth five similar causes of action to the effect that the Capital City Cap Company (hereinafter called the Cap Company), a New Jersey corporation, assigned to the Manufacturers’ Finance Company, a Delaware corporation (hereinafter called the Finance Company) various accounts receivable, and that subsequent thereto the defendants collected these accounts, for which the present action is brought by the plaintiff to whom the claim was assigned prior to the commencement of this action.

The answer admitted the collection of sums of money from the various debtors…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Finney v. GuySupreme Court of the United States · 1903
  2. Niles v. Martin Mathusa & Hinckel Brewing Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1900
  3. Faulkner v. . HartNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
  4. Grand v. LivingstonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1896
  5. Knickerbocker Trust Co. v. . IselinNew York Court of Appeals · 1906

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