Legal Opinion

Webster v. Lee

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided June 15, 1809PublishedCited by 38 opinions

Assumpsit by the endorsee of a promissory note dated the 11th day of June, 1798, made payable to James Drummond, jun., or order, and by him endorsed in blank.

1Opinion of the Court

[ * 335 ] * The points in the cause arising from the facts reported will be seen in the opinion of the Court, which was delivered at Boston, at the July adjournment of the March term the present year, by

Parsons, C. J.

The defendant, in support of the issue on his part, produced an agreement between Drummond, the payee of the note, and himself, entered into on the 1st day of October, 1799, submitting all demands to the determination of referees, which agreement was acknowledged before a justice of the peace pursuant to the statute of 1786, c. 21. He also produced a record of a judgment of the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Smith v. WhitingMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1814
  2. Hodges v. HodgesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1812

3Cited by38 opinions

  1. Kleine v. CataraU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1814
  2. Tucker v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1925
  3. Dickinson v. HayesSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1863
  4. Jackson ex dem. Eden v. VarickNew York Supreme Court · 1827
  5. Louison v. FischmanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1960

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