Woodruff v. Hill
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract upon a promissory note for $1352.70, At the trial in the Superior Court, before Putnam, J., the plaintiffs offered evidence tending to prove that the defendants made the note, and that the payees indorsed it before maturity to the plaintiffs, who paid to the payees at the time of the'indorsement, and as the consideration therefor, $699.48 in cash, and credited the payees with $629.55, in payment of a preexisting debt due from them to the plaintiffs, the balance of…
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Contract upon a promissory note for $1352.70, At the trial in the Superior Court, before Putnam, J., the plaintiffs offered evidence tending to prove that the defendants made the note, and that the payees indorsed it before maturity to the plaintiffs, who paid to the payees at the time of the'indorsement, and as the consideration therefor, $699.48 in cash, and credited the payees with $629.55, in payment of a preexisting debt due from them to the plaintiffs, the balance of said note amounting to $23.67, being charged and allowed for interest. The payees of the note and the plaintiffs are…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
The note was made in Massachusetts, and the contract of the makers with the payees and with any indorsee thereof was to be performed here, and governed by our law. Story Confl. Laws, §§ 317, 344, 345. By that law, the facts offered to be proved at the trial constituted no defence. Blanchard v. Stevens, 3 Cush. 162. Exceptions overruled.
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