Carpenter v. National Shawmut Bank
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. Action at law by Charles H. Carpenter against the National Shawmut Bank. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
It is convenient to call the plaintiff below, who is the plaintiff in error, merely the plaintiff.
In accordance with the practice allowable in Massachusetts, this suit was described in the writ as an action of “contract or tort.” Whichever way it may be described, .the result is the same. In the Circuit Court Judge Lowell directed a verdict for the defendant. Thereupon the plaintiff sued out this writ of error.
The declaration contained two counts, of which the first is as follows :
“Count 1. And the plaintiff says that on February 6, 1903, be was the owner and holder of…
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