Bond v. Farnham
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Assumpsit by the plaintiffs as endorsees against the defendant ns endorser of a promissory note dated February 28th, 1807, by which one William Barker, for value received, promised the defendant, to pay him or his order 269 dollars, 29 cents, in six months from the * date, with interest. The declaration sets [ * 171 ] forth an endorsement by the defendant to the plaintiffs, a demand on Barker, and notice to the defendant on the 28th of August, 1807.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was afterwards delivered by
Parsons, C. J.
Twc objections are made to the verdict — that no demand had been made on the maker after the note became due; — and that the defendant had not seasonable notice that the note was unpaid.
The facts agreed are, that, on the day the note was payable, a demand in writing was left with a lad at a store formerly occupied by the maker, but that, at that time, neither the store was in his occupation, nor the lad in his service; that the maker before that time had stopped payment, was insolvent, and continues so to be, but that he had…
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