Catlin v. Haddox
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit on a note given by tke defendant when a minor; brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield County. The following facts were found by the court. The plaintiff sues as administrator of Christopher P. Wheeler, who resided at Goshen in Litchfield County. After Wheeler’s death the note in suit was found by the plaintiff in a box containing notes, government bonds and other valuable papers belonging to him, which he had kept in the vault of a bank in Litchfield.
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Assumpsit on a note given by tke defendant when a minor; brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield County. The following facts were found by the court. The plaintiff sues as administrator of Christopher P. Wheeler, who resided at Goshen in Litchfield County. After Wheeler’s death the note in suit was found by the plaintiff in a box containing notes, government bonds and other valuable papers belonging to him, which he had kept in the vault of a bank in Litchfield. The note was as follows, with the following endorsements upon it in the handwriting of Wheeler: “New York, 16th Oct., 1848. “ On…
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
The note in suit was executed by the defendant when she was a minor and unmarried. Subsequently she married and removed with her husband to the state of Alabama, and resided there with him until his death in 1861. In 1866 she was married to her present husband, W. T, Haddox, with whom she has resided in Alabama since the fall of 1868. The payee of the note died in 1877, and the plaintiff afterwards, as administrator, found the note with other papers of the deceased in the vault of a bank where he had left them. The note was indorsed in the handwriting of the payee as follows:—“Interest paid…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Wilcox v. RoathSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1838
- Conklin v. OgbornIndiana Supreme Court · 1856
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