Hunt v. Taylor
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on a bill of exchange. The case was submitted to the judgment of the court on agreed facts, and argued at March term 1871; and is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The defendants made a draft on David H. Taylor, dated November 2, 1860, payable six months after date to their own order, and indorsed it to the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs indorsed it to William H. Dunbar, and on the 10th of April 1867, the draft not having been paid, Dunbar brought an action against the plaintiffs and defendants; but, one of the defendants having been discharged in insolvency, and the other in bankruptcy, he discontinued as to them, and recovered judgment against the plaintiffs. The judgment was paid by the plaintiffs August 16, 1869, and this action is brought…
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