Hyland v. Crofut
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for the specific performance of an alleged contract to pay the indebtedness of the plaintiff’s assignor and debtor, or for damages for the breach of such contract, brought to and tried by the District Court of Waterbury, Peasley, Jfacts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $1,147, and appeal by the defendant. Error and cause remanded for the rendition of a judgment for $661.84 w'dh interest.
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Action for the specific performance of an alleged contract to pay the indebtedness of the plaintiff’s assignor and debtor, or for damages for the breach of such contract, brought to and tried by the District Court of Waterbury, Peasley, Jfacts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $1,147, and appeal by the defendant. Error and cause remanded for the rendition of a judgment for $661.84 w'dh interest. Prior to February, 1909, the defendant and George E. Crofut, her husband, conducted a hotel at Oxford, Connecticut, known as the Crofut Inn. Shortly before the execution of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
On the trial of the action there was a conflict of testimony as to the amount of the debts which the defendant had agreed to pay; the defendant claiming that she had agreed to pay debts not exceeding $600, and that, if any paper was subsequently signed by her in duplicate stating the agreed amount to be $1,000, it was signed by mistake.
It is found by the court that one of the duplicates of the agreement signed by the defendant was given to Crofut and the other retained by the defendant, that Crofut’s duplicate was lost, and that the defendant, though notified to produce her original, refused…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Metropolitan Life Insurance v. FullerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1891
- Whitney v. CadySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1898
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