Case Name: Joseph B. Stadtmauer, Appellant, v. " Joseph " Lukin, First Name of Defendant Fictitious, etc., Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1925-12-30
Citations: 126 Misc. 318
Docket Number: 
Parties: Joseph B. Stadtmauer, Appellant, v. “ Joseph ” Lukin, First Name of Defendant Fictitious, etc., Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 126
Pages: 318–319

Head Matter:
Joseph B. Stadtmauer, Appellant, v. “ Joseph ” Lukin, First Name of Defendant Fictitious, etc., Respondent.
Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department,
December 30, 1925.
Gerald G. Schwarts, for the appellant.
No appearance for the respondent.

Opinion:
Bijur, J.
This action was brought upon a check. Defendant, whose testimony was evidently believed, testified that he gave the check in suit on a Sunday upon the express condition that it should not be used until the following Saturday. Nevertheless on the Monday succeeding the day of the making and delivery of the check defendant met the payee at defendant's bank and the payee said that he had come to have the check certified, whereupon the defendant stopped payment.
The check having been made and delivered upon a condition, whether it be called a condition precedent or a condition subsequent, and the condition violated by the payee, it seems to me to be clear that defendant had a right to rescind the transaction to that extent at least and to stop payment of the check.
The judgment, therefore, should be affirmed, with twenty-five dollars costs.
Levy, J., concurs; Churchill, J., dissents in opinion.