Frank v. . Lanier
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made the first Monday of May, 1881, which affirmed a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, entered upon a verdict.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made the first Monday of May, 1881, which affirmed a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, entered upon a verdict. This action was brought to recover of the defendants, who composed the firm of Winslow, Lanier & Co., the value of four instruments purporting to be treasury notes of the United States, commonly known as seven-thirty notes, alleged to have been sold by the'defendants to the plaintiffs on or about the 22d of September, 1867, which notes were afterward discovered to…
1Opinion of the CourtDanforth, J.
Upon the pleadings, the questions were,, whether certain written instruments purporting to be obliga tions of the United States, known as “ seventy-thirty ” notes, numbered respectively 16074, 160436, 68573, 140133, were in fact sold by the defendants to the plaintiffs, and if so, were they forgeries ? At the trial evidence was given by the plaintiffs upon these points, but the defendants controverted none of it, and we agree with the two courts by whom the facts in issue have been examined, that the testimony established the identity of the notes as those sold by the defendants, and it being…
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