Clemens Electrical Manufacturing Co. v. Walton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition to establish the truth of exceptions alleged by William A. Walton, in an action brought against him on June 29, 1895, by the Clemens Electrical Manufacturing Company, upon two promissory notes, one for $4,000, and the other for $3,714.12, each dated October 15, 1892, payable in two months after date to the Attleborough, North Attleborough, and Wrentham Street Railway Company, signed by that corporation, and indorsed by it and by the defendant; which exceptions were…
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Petition to establish the truth of exceptions alleged by William A. Walton, in an action brought against him on June 29, 1895, by the Clemens Electrical Manufacturing Company, upon two promissory notes, one for $4,000, and the other for $3,714.12, each dated October 15, 1892, payable in two months after date to the Attleborough, North Attleborough, and Wrentham Street Railway Company, signed by that corporation, and indorsed by it and by the defendant; which exceptions were disallowed by HopJcins, J., who presided at the trial in the Superior Court. The bill of exceptions as filed stated that…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
After the decision reported, 168 Mass. 304, the petition to prove the exceptions was referred to a commissioner with the usual powers, and his report is before us. The argument has been confined to the questions whether the bill of exceptions, as originally filed by the defendant, is in proper form, and whether the truth of the exceptions therein alleged has been established. We see nothing in the form of the bill of exceptions as filed which can be held to justify the disallowance of the exceptions. One of the defendant’s requests for rulings was “ that upon all the evidence the plaintiff…
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