Watts v. McDonald

Action of contract or tort. The plaintiffs allege that they recovered a judgment in the East Bos*87ton District Court against the defendant on a note made in 1937; that before making the note the defendant signed a financial statement which induced the plaintiffs to make the loan for which the note was given, and that the financial statement was a material misrepresentation of the financial condition of the defendant at the time that it was made.

To the plaintiffs’ action on the judgment recovered on the 1937 note the defendant filed an answer on the merits, a plea to the jurisdiction in which he…