Reardon v. Murdock

This action is brought on a promissory note for $50,000, dated September 22, 1925, signed by the defendant Murdock as maker, payable in six months after date to the order of the defendant Coakley, and indorsed by Coakley. After verdicts for the plaintiff, the case is here on exceptions by each defendant.

Murdock had signed the note as maker while it was still a blank form and had left it with Coakley for the purpose, as Murdock contends and as Coakley admits, of enabling Coakley to raise the sum of $25,000 for Murdock’s benefit. Coakley filled out the note by inserting the dates and the amount…