Brown v. Jewett
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract against the indorsers of a promissory note for $1500. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Pitman, J., the plaintiff offered evidence to prove that he purchased the note from the maker thereof, and proved the protest of the note and due notice to the defendants.
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Contract against the indorsers of a promissory note for $1500. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Pitman, J., the plaintiff offered evidence to prove that he purchased the note from the maker thereof, and proved the protest of the note and due notice to the defendants. The plaintiff then called the junior counsel of the defendants, then engaged in the trial of the case before the court, as a witness, for the purpose of proving by him, the signatures of the defendants upon the note. The defendants objected to his being so called, on the ground that, being counsel for the defendants,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The evidence was rightly admitted, and waa submitted to the jury with well guarded instructions.
Exceptions overruled.
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