Smith v. Brown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on a judgment. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., the jury returned a verdict for tbe plaintiff; and tbe first named defendant alleged exceptions, ■which appear in tbe opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDeyens, J.
The defendant Griffiths named in tbe writ was not served with process, and tbe action was prosecuted against the defendant Brown alone, under the Pub. Sts. c. 164, § 14. Smith, tbe nominal plaintiff, had declared upon a judgment recovered by him in New York against Brown and Griffiths, on January 31, *3391887, alleging that the action was brought for the use of Shafer and Gottgetren, to. whom the judgment had been assigned in February, 1887, with notice to the defendants named, and their attorney, of such assignment shortly thereafter and long prior to November, 1887. The defendant was…
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