Legal Opinion
Great Barrington Savings Bank v. Day
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 24, 1934PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
This is an action of contract to recover upon a promissory note, payable to the plaintiff on demand and signed by Warren H. Davis, Frank A. Minkler and the defendant, as makers in that order. The defendant’s answer is a general denial and a denial of the genuineness of the signature, and an averment that the defendant was an accommodation party. The defendant further answered that if he signed the note he did so as an accommodation party and that the party accommodated was the plaintiff.
There was evidence tending to show that in 1920 a note in the sum of $3,000 was given to the plaintiff…
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- Goodman v. GaullMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923
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3Cited by16 opinions
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