Inhabitants of South Berwick v. Huntress
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Exceptions from Nisi Prius, Danforth, J., presid ing. Debt on a collector’s bond. Plea non est factum. The main facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. The verdict was for the defendants, and the plaintiffs ex cepted.
1Opinion of the CourtKent, J.
The exceptions present a single question for our determination. The counsel for the plaintiffs requested this instruction, which the facts of the case made pertinent and applicable, " that a party executing a bond, knowing that there are blanks in it to be filled up, necessary to make it a perfect instrument, must be considered as agreeing that the blanks may be thus filled after he has executed the bond.” The presiding Judge, in his instructions, assented to this as correct, when limited " to such matters appearing on the face of the instrument to be certain, such as the names of the…
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