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13 Wend. 28

Brewster v. Colwell

New York Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1834

New York Supreme Court · decided 1834-10-15

Error from the Jefferson common pleas. Brewster sued Colwell and two others, trustees of a school district, in a justice’s court, and claimed to recover an account for wood furnished the school. The defendants set off a due-bill given by the plaintiff, payable to O. & C. Colwell or bearer, transferred by the payees to the defendants in tiffs suit.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently April 1868

2 state decisions

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Decided 1834-10-15

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¶1By the Court,

Savage, Ch. J.

¶2The plaintiff in error insists that the trustees of a school district could not become the endorsees of a promissory note. The trustees are a corporation for certain purposes; they may do sundry acts which involve to some extent the transaction of monied concerns. They no doubt may receive, for money due to them, the note of a third person. Until the note was impeached, or some defence made against it, they were under no obligation to show how they came by it. The courts below decided correctly, and the judgment of the common pleas must be affirmed.

¶3Judgment affirmed.

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