Case ID: ny-st-rep_69/html/0379-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Giegerich, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Thomas Martin, Plaintiff, v. Harry A. Lynch, Defendant.
    
      (New York Common Pleas, Special Term,
    
    
      Filed August 27, 1895.)
    
    1. Arrest—Note.
    A creditor who, with knowledge of his debtor’s fraud accepts his note for the claim, cannot afterwards aid the enforcement of such claim by the arrest of the debtor.
    2. Same—Maturity op cause op action.
    The cause of action, in such case, is in abeyance until the maturity of the note.
    Motion to vacate an order of arrest.
    
      D. B. Luclcey and J. C. McEachen (Frederick K. Ciarle, of counsel), for pl’ff ; Byram L. Winters, for def’t.
   Giegerich, J.

The motion is made upon the original papers. Hence, as upon a demurrer, the facts alleged are to be taken as true. Evans v. Holmes, 46 How. Prac. 515. However, assuming the defendant’s fraud to have been shown, it is clear, from the plaintiff’s own statement that he was aware of the facts in questian when he accepted the defendant’s promissory note for the sum now sought to be recovered, the legal effect of which acceptance was to change his claim for a wrong into a debt. Alliance Ins. Co. v. Cleveland, 14 How. Prac. 408. Until the note became due the cause of action was in abeyance (see case last cited), and yet the summons upon which the order was founded was served seven days before the date of maturity. For these'■reasons the motion should be granted, with $10 costs to the defendants, to abide the event.