Burke v. Jacobson

This is an action in assumpsit on a promissory note. After trial in the Superior Court, which terminated in a verdict for the plaintiffs, the case is in this court on the defendants’ exceptions: to the denial of their motion for a directed verdict and to the refusal of the trial justice to grant them a new trial.

On December 17,1926, the defendants signed a promissory note as follows:

“Providence, R. I.

December 17, 1926.

$1,100.00

One year after date I promise to pay to the order of Peter J. and Mary A. Burke, Eleven Hundred Dollars. Payable at Union Trust Co. of Providence, R. I. Value received…