Munroe v. Stanley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on December 2, 1913, and afterwards amended, against Harry R. Stanley as executor of the will of Sumner C. Stanley and as administrator of the estate of Charles R. Stanley, the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company and Atherton N. Hunt and Emery B. Gibbs, administrators with the will annexed of George E. Williams.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on December 2, 1913, and afterwards amended, against Harry R. Stanley as executor of the will of Sumner C. Stanley and as administrator of the estate of Charles R. Stanley, the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company and Atherton N. Hunt and Emery B. Gibbs, administrators with the will annexed of George E. Williams. The allegations of the bill were in substance that the plaintiff on April 1, 1909, was insured with the defendant insurance company; that on that date he borrowed $600 of George E. Williams, the general agent of the insurance company…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The third and fourth of the promissory notes referred to in the bill and specifically set forth in the schedule annexed to the answers of the defendant Stanley, each of which purports to be signed by the plaintiff as maker, having been forged by Williams, are mere nullities. Wade v. Withington, 1 Allen, 561. Mackintosh v. Eliot National Bank, 123 Mass. 393. Rowe v. Putnam, 131 Mass. 281.
The first and second notes, although they bear the plaintiff’s genuine signatures, were incomplete instruments when delivered to Williams as the name of the payee was left in blank, and the blank remained…
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