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54 N.Y. 14

Alger v. . Scott

New York Court of Appeals

Decided March 5, 1873

New York Court of Appeals · decided 1873-03-05

This action was brought to recover $233.31 rent for certain premises in the city of Brooklyn, known as Mo. 13 Cheever Place, from the 1st day of August, 1866, to the fifteenth of Movember in the same year.

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Decided 1873-03-05

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Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1937

2 district · 8 state decisions

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Gray, C.

¶1 The cases in this State, from Peyton v. Hallett (1 Caines’ Cas., 363, 364, 379), down to Parker v. The. City of Syracuse (31 N. Y., 376, 379), in which an order, payable out of a specified fund, has been held not to be a bill of exchange requiring an acceptance, but an assignment of the fund to the payee to the amount specified in the order, were each of them cases where the drawer had received a consideration for the order, and, for that reason, the order was held to be an assignment of the fund drawn upon to the amount specified in it. This order was not supported by any consideration. " Its validity is tested by the same rule it would be if not drawn upon a specified' fund, and Glover, by reason of the defendants’ refusal to accept it, had brought his action against the plaintiff to recover its amount. In such a *16 case, the want of consideration would defeat, as it rightfully did in this case.

¶2 The judgment appealed from should be affirmed.

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