Deering v. Chapman
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
This action was assumpsit on a note given by Isaac Chapman and the defendant to the plaintiff, January 5, 1839, for $39,44. The facts were agreed, from which it appears, that the plaintiff had an account against Isaac Chapman, amounting to $51,44, the first item being under date of Nov. 28, 1838, and the .last Jan. 2, 1839. There were credits of cash, Nov. 30, 1838, $5,00; Dec. 3, $5,00; and Dec. 19, $2,00. The note was given on the day of its date for the balance.
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This action was assumpsit on a note given by Isaac Chapman and the defendant to the plaintiff, January 5, 1839, for $39,44. The facts were agreed, from which it appears, that the plaintiff had an account against Isaac Chapman, amounting to $51,44, the first item being under date of Nov. 28, 1838, and the .last Jan. 2, 1839. There were credits of cash, Nov. 30, 1838, $5,00; Dec. 3, $5,00; and Dec. 19, $2,00. The note was given on the day of its date for the balance. A part of the charges in this account, amounting to $27,66, was for spirituous liquors sold in the town of Saco by the plaintiff…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was drawn up by
Whitman C. J.
— The note declared on was signed by the defendant as surety, it would seem, with Isaac Chapman, who must have been the principal debtor. Payment is resisted upon the ground, that a part of the consideration for the note was ardent spirits, sold by the plaintiffj a retailer, without license therefor, to said Isaac in violation of the statute, which prohibits such selling in less quantities than twenty-eight gallons at one time. The authorities cited by the defendant’s counsel are numerous, and fully establish the general principle, that all…
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