Rowe v. Putnam
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract upon a check dated February 23, 1880, for $65, payable to the order of R. L. Howard & Co., signed by the defendants, and purporting to be indorsed by the payees. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendants, to this court on appeal, on agreed facts, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtEndicott, J.
The defendants gave the, check upon which this action is brought under the following circumstances. On the day before the check was given, one King, who represented himself to be a member of the firm of R. L. Howard & Company, of Gardiner, Maine, called upon the defendants and purchased of them certain goods, and in payment therefor presented a check purporting to be a cashier’s check upon a bank in Gardiner, payable to the firm of R. L. Howard & Company. This check exceeded the price of the goods purchased in the sum of $65. Before taking the check, the defendants ascertained that 'there was…
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