Miller v. Stebbins
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit on a promissory note. Pleas, the general issue, with notice denying the signature; and the Statute of Limitations. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1904, Orleans County, Haselton, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion fully states the case. The evidence offered as to the poverty of Crawford and Inis family should have been admitted.
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Assumpsit on a promissory note. Pleas, the general issue, with notice denying the signature; and the Statute of Limitations. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1904, Orleans County, Haselton, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion fully states the case. The evidence offered as to the poverty of Crawford and Inis family should have been admitted. Strong v. Slicer, 35 Vt. 40; Randall v. Preston, 52 Vt. 108; McDowell v. McDowell’s Rst., 75 Vt. 404; Downer v. Bowen, 12 Vt. 452; Kimball v. Locke, 31 Vt. 683. Crawford could not have collected the…
1Opinion of the CourtStart, J.
The action is for the recovery of the amount claimed toi be due upon a promissory note for the sum of two hundred dollars, dated October 15, 1896, payable to; A. J. Crawford, or bearer, on demand, and purporting to be signed by the defendant. The evidence of the plaintiif tended to show that the note was given for two hundred dollars loaned by Crawford to the defendant on the day the note purports to have been executed; that the defendant executed and .delivered the note to Crawford on that day, and he held it until the spring or summer of 1897, when he turned it out to one Ceorge Miller as…
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