Lowell Co-operative Bank v. Dafis

These are two actions of contract brought by the Lowell Co-operative Bank against Acheleas Dafis and his wife, Hariklia Dafis, as makers of a “joint and several promissory note” payable to the plaintiff. In the Superior Court in each case a verdict was directed for the plaintiff in the sum of $3,361.60, subject to the defendant’s exception. The cases were then reported to this court.

In November, 1925, the bank made a real estate loan to the defendant Acheleas Dafis and both defendants executed the note therefor in the usual cooperative bank form secured by a mortgage of real estate owned by…