Engel v. Fischer

By the Court (Van Vorst, J.).

— The defendant, residing in Austria, in the month of Hay, 1873, incurred the obligar tion as acceptor of the draft which is the subject of this action. In July, 1873, the defendant absconded from Austria and came to the city of New York, and “ for the purpose of concealing himself from his creditors assumed a fictitious name, and has ever since borne and been hiding under such fictitious name.” The draft matured after the defendant took up his residence in New York. In April, 1882, the plaintiff, the owner of the draft, discovered defendant in the city of New…