Borden v. Borden
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This action was pending also in the county of Bristol, and was based upon the following promissory note, viz. “ I, the subscriber, promise to pay William Borden, or order, nine thousand dollars, at or on the twenty-fifth day of March next, he procuring a good warrantee deed of his homestead estate, agreeable to bond, for which the above sum is to be paid. Witness my hand, Jonathan Borden. October 16, 1804.”
1Opinion of the Court
The cause stood further continued for advisement; and at mis term the opinion of the Court (except the Chief Justice, who had been of counsel for one of the parties) was delivered as follows, by
Sewall, J.
The contract declared on by the plaintiff, W. B., in this case, and proved at the trial, is a conditional promise on the part of the defendant, J. B., who engages by his promissory note to pay the plaintiff, at a day stipulated, the sum of nine thousand dollars, he procuring a good deed with warranty of his homestead estate, agreeable to bond, for which the sum is to be paid. And by the bond…
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