Legal Opinion

Canton v. Shaffer

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided February 28, 1925Published

1Opinion of the Court

Braley, ,J.

The defendant Los Angeles Company made a promissory note payable to the order of H. Goodowsky, which before delivery was indorsed by the defendant Shaffer. The plaintiff, while a holder of the note, was not a holder in due course, but contended that as an assignee he had all the rights of the payee. The answer, however, denied the signature of all parties, and, the plaintiff having offered no evidence that the signature of Goodowsky, the payee, who appeared on the back of the note to be the last indorser, was genuine, he had failed to show title in himself. Whitman v. Fournier, 228…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Lowell v. BickfordMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
  2. Levison v. LavalleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
  3. Whitman v. FournierMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917

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