Germania Savings Bank v. Village of Suspension Bridge
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the late General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered January 17, 1894, affirming a judgment for the defendant, entered upon the decision of the court after a trial without a jury.
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Appeal from a judgment of the late General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered January 17, 1894, affirming a judgment for the defendant, entered upon the decision of the court after a trial without a jury. The appeal was brought in the name of the plaintiff by a privy acting under the authority of chapter 792 of the Laws of 1895. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.- This appeal is well and properly taken, under the provisions of chapter 792 of the Laws of 1895, entitled “ An act for the protection of bona fide…
1Opinion of the CourtVann, J.
This action was brought to recover the interest alleged to have become due on the first days of January and July, 1888, on four coupon bonds for §500 each, known as Suspension Bridge water bonds, bearing the numbers 234 to 237, inclusive. The defense alleged in the answer is that bond No. 237 had never been issued at all; that the other bonds had never been legally issued, and that all of them, after they had been engraved and signed, were feloniously abstracted from the possession of the board of water commissioners and sold without authority) before they had a legal inception.
Upon the trial…
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