Case ID: ny-sup-ct_77/html/0600-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Henry W. Sage and Others, Appellants, v. David C. Burton, Respondent.
   Judgment reversed and a new trial granted, costs to abide the event.

Per Curiam

(Herrick, J., not acting): The defendant failed to show any authority in Abbott to indorse the check. On the contrary, it appeared that he had no such power. Certainly without any proof of error or mistake in plaintiff’s account, which is admitted by the answer, he was not shown to have possessed any power, as agent of plaintiffs, to receive a check for $100 less than plaintiffs’ conceded account in payment thereof. The check with which defendant claims to have paid the account set out in the complaint was produced on the trial by defendant, with a forged indorsement, and hence was then in defendant’s possession unpaid. We think defendant did not show payment of plaintiffs’ conceded account, and hence that it was error to nonsuit. The judgment should be reversed and a new trial granted, costs to abide the event.