Hopkins v. Shepard
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract. The declaration was as follows : “ And the plaintiff says that, by the consideration of the justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the county of Kennebec, and State of Maine, at the August term thereof, A. D. 1866, to wit August 21, 1866, he recovered judgment against the defendant in the sum of $218, debt or damage, and $11.64, costs of suit, which judgment is in full force and not impaired, annulled or satisfied: whereupon the plaintiff is entitled to have and…
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Contract. The declaration was as follows : “ And the plaintiff says that, by the consideration of the justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the county of Kennebec, and State of Maine, at the August term thereof, A. D. 1866, to wit August 21, 1866, he recovered judgment against the defendant in the sum of $218, debt or damage, and $11.64, costs of suit, which judgment is in full force and not impaired, annulled or satisfied: whereupon the plaintiff is entitled to have and recover of the defendant, by force of said judgment, the amount thereof and interest thereon.” At the trial in the…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
There can be no doubt that the plaintiff, under his declaration, and without proving any demand, is entitled to recover interest by way of damages upon the judgment sued on, from the date of that judgment to the date of judgment in this action, computed at the ordinary legal rate of interest in this Commonwealth. Williams v. American Bank, 4 Met. 317, 322. Barringer v. King, 5 Gray, 9. Mahurin v. Bickford, 6 N. H. 567. Exceptions overruled, with double costs.
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