Ward v. Venner
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, upon a promissory note for $25,000, dated at New York, June 27, 1891, payable one year after date to the order of Henry G. Hubbard, and signed by the defendant. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Hammond, J., who found for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
This is an action upon a promissory note, and the only question argued for the defendant is whether the plain*211tiff had a title by indorsement. The note was among the effects of one Henry G. Hubbard, deceased. Hubbard’s executors were Margaret S. Hubbard, Melville B. Copeland, and William H. Burrows. Under his will the same persons were trustees of the residue, of which the note formed a part, but they had not qualified. In order to enable a suit to be brought in Massachusetts the note was indorsed with the above three names, followed by the words, “ Trustees of the estate of Henry G. Hubbard;…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Forster v. FullerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1809
3Cited by4 opinions
- Duxbury v. RobertsMassachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · 1982
- Time Loan Service, Inc. v. BukowitzCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1954
- Duxbury v. RobertsMassachusetts District Court · 1982
- In re Estate of PaigeCalifornia Superior Court · 1910