Catlin v. Hansen
The Superior Court of New York City
This was an action against the defendant as the maker and endorser of a promissory note, and was tried before the chief justice in March, 1852. A motion to set aside the verdict and •for a new trial was afterwards made upon a- case at a special term, and was denied, and the causé was now heard upon an appeal from this decision.
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This was an action against the defendant as the maker and endorser of a promissory note, and was tried before the chief justice in March, 1852. A motion to set aside the verdict and •for a new trial was afterwards made upon a- case at a special term, and was denied, and the causé was now heard upon an appeal from this decision. In order that the questions raised upon the trial, and upon the argument, may be properly understood, it will be necessary to state vn extenso, both the pleadings and the evidence. The pleadings, omitting the reply, which merely took issue upon the allegations of new…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
The plaintiff declared upon a promissory note, made by the defendant, payable to his own order, and endorsed *320by himself. The defendant admitted in his answer the making and endorsing of the note, and set up, by way of defence, that it was made and endorsed by him for the purpose of being used . to renew and take up a previous note for the same amount. That the person into whose possession it came, and who claimed to be the owner of the first note, agreed to accept the note in suit and deliver up the first note. That he afterwards refused to deliver up the first note, and kept both notes, and…
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