Jennings v. Moore
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Conteact on a promissory note dated Boston, Mass., April 10,1896, payable one month after date to the order of Stephen Jennings, for $6,200, with interest at the rate of one and one half per cent per month, payable monthly, signed by the defendant and indorsed by J. O. Moore.
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Conteact on a promissory note dated Boston, Mass., April 10,1896, payable one month after date to the order of Stephen Jennings, for $6,200, with interest at the rate of one and one half per cent per month, payable monthly, signed by the defendant and indorsed by J. O. Moore. Writ dated April 17, 1902. The note sued upon was as follows: “ Boston, Mass., April 10, 1896. “ One month after date, for value received, I promise to pay to the order of Stephen Jennings at his place of business in Boston, six thousand two hundred dollars, with interest at the rate of one and one half per cent per…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
It appears from the report that on April 9,1896, one Dr. J. C. Moore, who had “made an assignment for the benefit of creditors,” called upon the plaintiff at his office in Boston and told him that among his assets were one hundred and twenty shares of the Laconia and Lakeport Street Railway, (formerly the Laconia and Lake Village Horse Railroad,) which he did not wish sold at a forced sale; that he and his friends had control of the road and that he thought the stock worth more than it was likely to bring if pushed to a sale. These one hundred and twenty shares were then pledged as security…
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