Bardin v. . Stevenson
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the third judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaiutifF, entered upon a decision of the court on trial without a jury. This action was upon a promissory note alleged to have been executed by William Stevenson, defendant’s intestate, dated “ Fort Edward, July 24,1852,” for the sum of $1,000, payable to plaintiff or bearer, thirty days after sight, with interest at six per cent.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the third judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaiutifF, entered upon a decision of the court on trial without a jury. This action was upon a promissory note alleged to have been executed by William Stevenson, defendant’s intestate, dated “ Fort Edward, July 24,1852,” for the sum of $1,000, payable to plaintiff or bearer, thirty days after sight, with interest at six per cent. The defense was that the signature to the note was a forgery. The further facts material to the questions discussed appear sufficiently…
1Opinion of the CourtHand, J.
The learned counsel for the appellant has presented in his brief a very elaborate analysis of and argument upon the conflicting evidence given as to the genuineness of the signature of William Stevenson to the note in suit. But that question was settled by the finding of the jury in favor of the respondent and is of course not rcviewable in this court.
The points orally argued before us were upon the rulings of the judge in the admission and exclusion of evidence at the trial.
Upon an examination of these rulings we are of the opinion ■ that in none of them was there error affecting the…
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