Union Bank v. Mandel
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Edward Mandel, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 20th day of ¡November, 1909, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 7th day of ¡December, 1909, denying the said defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The plaintiff brings this action to recover the sum of $900 and interest on an unpaid promissory note dated December 6, 1907. The maker of this note, Louis Mandel, and his indorsers, Ester Mandel and Samuel Schlesinger, do not appeal from the judgment. Edward Mandel, whose name ■ appears among the indorsers, set up two defenses — one that his name appears upon the paper as a witness to the signature of his mother rather than as an indorser, and the other that he was under twenty-one years of age at the time of the indorsement. The issues thus raised by the pleadings were made the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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