one D. G. Boberts, whereby Boberts is alleged to have pledged with Whipple, for loans to him, $15,000 of the defendant’s paper. Boberts delivered to Whippje $12,500, and was to send him $2,500 more, and stated to him that he and Jackson had some unsettled matters, and that Jackson had not delivered to him the last $2,500 note he was entitled to, and the matter would be fixed up after a while, and he would send it to him. It appears that Boberts never delivered the note in question to Whipple, and there is some statement of a correspondence in respect to its being lost. But it further appears that Boberts did deliver $12,500 notes upon this $10,000 loan from Whipple to him, which notes were paid; and there was also evidence tending to show that the defendant paid to Whipple the $2,500 note in suit, upon the theory that it was lost. The evidence further shows that between the 5th and 15th of October, 1886, Boberts called, with the note in question, at the office of the plaintiff’s husband in East Twenty-Fifth street in the city of New York, and desired to get some money upon it, and that the husband, having certain moneys of his wife’s,, by and with her consent bought and paid for the note. It is urged that the evidence in regard to the buying of and payment for the note by the plaintiff’s husband was of such a character as to excite suspicion, and that the question should have been submitted to the jury as to the credibility of such evidence. But the question as to the right to recover goes beyond this. There is no doubt that Jackson was a holder of this note for value, and that the defendant paid this note to Whipple after the latter had parted with the same; and there is no evidence that Whipple •ever again had possession of the note, or ever had any right to the note, except upon the promise of Boberts to deliver it upon the loan of $10,000, which was entirely paid without such delivery. It appears, therefore, that Whipple ‘had no title of the note, and no right to collect the same. We think, therefore, that the learned -court below was correct in directing the verdict, as there was no question which could be submitted to the jury. If any payment -of this note was made, it was made to a party not entitled to receive it. Aside from this feature of the transaction, the fact of the note having been held for so long, and some of the peculiar features in regard to its purchase, might have excited suspicion, and justified the submission of the case to the jury. But when we consider that Jackson was a holder for value, and that Whipple, from the time he first parted with the note, never acquired any title thereto, never was the actual owner of the note, and never had possession of the same, it is evident that payment to him would be no defense,.as against a holder of the note, even though such holder had paid no consideration, and had received the note after maturity.
The judgment and order should be affirmed, with costs.
All concur.