Hunt v. Adams
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The declaration in this case, which was in assumpsit, contained several counts, all of which,- as it appears from the report of Sedgwick, J., before whom the cause was tried upon the general issue at the last May term in this county, were intended to refer only to one demand, which was founded on the following circumstances: — Joseph Chaplin made his promissory note to the plaintiff’s intestate in the words and figures following: — “ Lee, July 23,1804. For value received, I…
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The declaration in this case, which was in assumpsit, contained several counts, all of which,- as it appears from the report of Sedgwick, J., before whom the cause was tried upon the general issue at the last May term in this county, were intended to refer only to one demand, which was founded on the following circumstances: — Joseph Chaplin made his promissory note to the plaintiff’s intestate in the words and figures following: — “ Lee, July 23,1804. For value received, I promised to pay Isaac Bennett, five hundred and fifty dollars, lawful money of the United States, on the 25th day of…
1Opinion of the Court
The action being continued nisi, the opinion of the Court was delivered at the following March term in Suffolk, by
Sewall, J.
(after stating the substance of the judge’s report of the trial.) The decision by this Court, in a suit between these parties, brought upon one other of the notes mentioned, (2) must be considered as settling the legal construction and operation of the note, and of the guaranty of the defendant in the writing now in question. And as to the oral testimony offered in the cause, it may be observed, that in the action heretofore decided, the defendant had been permitted to…
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