Hill v. Chase
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract upon a written instrument, with counts for money-lent. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Pit-man, J., who found for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, C. J.
The only question presented by this bill of exceptions is whether the presiding justice of the Superior Court, who tried the case without a jury, was justified in finding that the contract sued on was made in this State.
It appeared in evidence that the defendant, a married woman living in Salem in the State of New Hampshire, in the summer of the year 1864, employed her sister, Mrs. Shirley, to borrow for her fifty dollars of Mr. Hill, her brother, living in Salem in the State of Massachusetts. Mr. Hill declined to lend the money, but the plaintiff, his wife, out of her own money, delivered.…
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