Ordered that the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The third-party plaintiff's action for contribution hinged upon the invalidity of an assignment. It is well settled that a certificate of acknowledgment attached to a written instrument raises a presumption of due execution, and such presumption "can be rebutted only after being weighed against any evidence adduced to show that the subject instrument was not duly executed" (Lum v Antonelli...
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