Robertson v. Coleman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract to recover the amount of a bank check for $91.08, signed by the defendants, dated March 31, 1883, and payable to the order of Charles Barney. Trial in the Superior Court, before Knowlton, J., who reported the case for the determination of this court, in substance as follows: On March 27, 1883, a young man went to the Metropolitan hotel in Boston, of which the plaintiff was the proprietor, and registered his name. as Charles Barney.
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Contract to recover the amount of a bank check for $91.08, signed by the defendants, dated March 31, 1883, and payable to the order of Charles Barney. Trial in the Superior Court, before Knowlton, J., who reported the case for the determination of this court, in substance as follows: On March 27, 1883, a young man went to the Metropolitan hotel in Boston, of which the plaintiff was the proprietor, and registered his name. as Charles Barney. On that or the next day he took to the place of business of the defendants, who sold property as auctioneers, a team, of which he represented himself to…
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
The name of a person is the verbal designa,tion by which he is known, but the visible presence of a person affords surer means of identifying him than his name. The defendants, for a valuable consideration, gave the check to a person who said his name was Charles Barney, and whose name they believed to be Charles Barney, and they made it payable to the order of Charles Barney, intending thereby the person to whom they gave the check. The plaintiff received this check for a valuable consideration, in good faith, from the same person, whom he believed to be Charles Barney, and who indorsed the…
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