Security Nat. Bank v. Porter
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Assumpsit, upon four promissory notes. At the close of the evidence the court directed a verdict for the plaintiff and the defendants excepted. Transferred by Branch, J., from the May term, 1919, of the superior court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
The plaintiff produced four promissory notes in evidence, upon which the suit was brought, which were signed by the defendants, each for two hundred and twenty-five dollars, dated at Ashland, N. H., May 31, 1917, payable to the order of Partin Manufacturing Company in three, four, five and six months respectively. The notes were indorsed in blank by the payee and, as claimed by the plaintiff, discounted by it before either became due, and withouf notice of any defect in the notes.
The defence is that the defendants were induced to sign the notes through the fraud of the payee in regard to a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hallock v. YoungSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1904
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