Legal Opinion
Carmen v. Higginson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 5, 1923PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
This is an action of contract. The case comes before us by report wherein the following facts appear. On November 1,1917, the plaintiff bought of the defendants a draft on the Russian Bank for Foreign Trade, Petrograd, Russia, to the order of the plaintiff in the sum of ten thousand roubles. The price paid was at the rate of about twenty-eight and one half cents per rouble. On the date of purchase and ever since there were funds of the defendants in the Russian bank sufficient to meet the draft. Two weeks after the purchase the plaintiff forwarded the draft to the branch of the National City…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Ross v. RossMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1880
- Blanchard v. RussellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1816
- Atlantic Maritime Co. v. City of GloucesterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
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3Cited by11 opinions
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- Lennon v. CohenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1928
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- Commissioner of Banks v. Chase Securities Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
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