Case Name: GREENBERG v. BRITT
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1899-05-24
Citations: 58 N.Y.S. 409
Docket Number: 
Parties: GREENBERG v. BRITT.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 58
Pages: 409–410

Head Matter:
GREENBERG v. BRITT.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
May 24, 1899.)
Appeal and Error—Questions of Fact.
An appeal from a finding that an assigned claim, which defendant was seeking to set off against an admitted cause of action, was antedated so as to render it available, is futile, as it involves a mere question of fact.
MacLean, J., dissenting.
Appeal from municipal court, borough of Manhattan, Fifth district.
Action by Jacob Greenberg against Mary Britt. There was judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
Affirmed.
Argued before FREEDMA2ST, P. J., and MacLEAN" and LEVEN-TRITT, JJ.
Henry L. Franklin, for appellant.
Louis S. Finn, for respondent.

Opinion:
LEVENTRITT, J.
The defendant sought to offset an assigned claim to the plaintiff's admitted cause of action. The single question litigated was the date of the execution and delivery of the alleged written assignment to the defendant, and the justice, on sufficient evidence, found that it was antedated in order to render the counterclaim available. To appeal from such a determination is futile, as it involves merely a question of fact, which, under the settled practice of this court, uniformly leads to affirmance. The judgment must be affirmed.
Judgment affirmed, with costs to the respondent.
FREEDMAN, P. J., concurs.