O'Hara v. Robinson
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court, Niagara county. Action by Esther O’Hara against Lewis W. Robinson for the collection of a promissory note. Defendant had judgment, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDwight, P. J.
In May, 1883, the defendant was indebted to the plaintiff on two promissory notes,—one of $250, for a part of the purchase price of lands sold by the latter to the former, and one of $50, for borrowed money,— both due on the 1st day of April, 1884. In June, 1883, the defendant learned that a judgment of $226 had been docketed in Niagara county, in the year 1876, against John O’Hara, (since deceased,) the grantor of the plaintiff, and Robert O’Hara, his son, which had never been discharged, and was then an apparent lien on the premises which the plaintiff had conveyed to the defendant, with…
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