Caldwell v. Eastman

This is an action of contract, to recover the balance due on a promissory note. The defendant pleaded a discharge in bankruptcy in March, 1913. There was a trial before a judge of the Superior Court with a jury. At the close of the evidence, counsel agreed that no facts were in dispute; and the defendant’s counsel statéd, in reply to an inquiry from the trial judge, that he was not prepared to show that the plaintiff had had notice of the bankruptcy proceedings.

The defendant introduced in evidence a certificate of the District Court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts,…