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156 A.D. 807

Kerr v. Smith

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1913-05-29

Appeal by the defendant, Addison Smith, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 14th day of April, 1913.

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Decided 1913-05-29

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Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 1956

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Per Curiam:

¶1Appeal from an order denying defendant’s motion, made on additional affidavits, to vacate an attachment.

¶2An inspection of the complaint shows that it states no cause of action, and that the attachment was improvidently granted. The complaint contains thirteen separate counts substantially identical in form, the portions of which material to this appeal are as follows: “ That heretofore and on or about the day of Addison Smith made and delivered to one Eliza M. Smith his promissory note in writing, dated on that day, and thereby promised to pay the estate of Eliza M. Smith, upon her death, the sum of dollars.” Instruments in the above form, are not negotiable. They are payable neither to order nor hearer, nor are they payable at a determinable future time.” (Neg. Inst. Law [Consol. Laws, chap. 38; Laws of 1909, chap. 43], §§ 20, 23; Rice v. Rice, 43 App. Div. 458.) It was, therefore, necessary to allege a consideration. (Deyo v. Thompson, 53 App. Div. 9.) No such allegation appears.

¶3*808The order appealed from should he reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion granted, with ten dollars costs.

¶4Present—Ingraham, P. J., Clarke, Scott, Dowling and Hotchkiss, JJ.

¶5Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion granted, with ten dollars, costs.

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