Colonial Discount Co. v. Rumens

Order granting defendant’s motion for summary judgment in an action to recover on a promissory note, and the judgment entered thereon, unanimously affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements. The plaintiff is a finance company claiming to be a holder before maturity for value. The note was given in connection with the sale of an automobile; and simultaneously therewith the defendant executed a chattel mortgage. Both of these instruments were executed in blank; and subsequently an employee of the automobile dealer filled in the chattel mortgage, describing therein an automobile which…