Bassett v. Lawrence

Hr. Justice Freeman

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a promissory note for $1,000 made by appellant payable to the order of appellee, dated June 3, 1893.

It appears that in 1889 the parties hereto entered into a contract by which appellant sold his shares of stock in a business enterprise known as the Pictorial Printing Company to appellee, and the latter agreed to pay for the same in weekly installments. These installments had been paid in full so far as they had matured, when, in June, 1893, appellant requested appellee to advance or loan him…