Case ID: ny_247/html/0533-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of the Accounting of William J. Danaher, as Executor of Edward C. Ball, Deceased, Appellant. William Ball et al., Appellants; Alice J. Gillen, Respondent.
    
      Bills, notes and checks — consideration — claim against decedent’s estate on note made by decedent before death — presumption of consideration from use of words “value received.”
    
    
      Matter of Ball, 221 App. Div. 228, affirmed.
    (Argued December 8, 1927;
    decided January 10, 1928.)
    Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered June 3, 1927, which reversed a decree of the Kings County Surrogate’s Court, in so far as it disallowed the claim of the respondent herein based upon the following instrument:
    “ $20,000.00
    “ St. Augustine, Fla. April 9th, 1923.
    “On or before sixty days after date, I promise to pay to the order of Alice J. Hunter, Twenty thousand ($20,000.00), for value received, negotiable and payable at St. Augustine, Florida or Brooklyn, N. Y.
    “It is agreed by the parties hereto that the maker of this note can pay the same in United States Liberty Bonds, of the par value of twenty thousand ($20,000.00) Dollars-
    “ E. BALL [seal] ”
    The Appellate Division held that the evidence was insufficient to overcome the presumption of sufficient consideration arising from the words “ value received.”
    
      John J. Cunneen, Charles O. Grim and JohnF. Middle-miss for appellants.
    
      Philip J. Britt and Stephen E. Ryan for respondent.
   Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman, Kellogg and O’Brien, JJ,