Beaman v. Gerrish
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Four actions of contract by the payee of two promissory notes dated August 25, 1914, against Henry Gerrish, Jr., the maker, and Arthur W. Burke, an indorser, for instalments alleged to be due thereon.
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Four actions of contract by the payee of two promissory notes dated August 25, 1914, against Henry Gerrish, Jr., the maker, and Arthur W. Burke, an indorser, for instalments alleged to be due thereon. Writs dated, respectively, December 13, 1916, March 2 and September 11, 1917, and May 29, 1918; also an action of Tort or contract by Arthur W. Burke against Nathaniel P. Beaman, with a declaration in three counts, the allegations of the first count being that the plaintiff was induced by fraudulent misrepresentations of the defendant, the treasurer of the Parsons Manufacturing Company, to…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
Four of these actions are in contract to recover instalments alleged to be due upon two promissory notes payable to the order of Beaman, signed by Gerrish as maker and Burke as indorser, these two being defendants in each of these actions. The fifth action, as it finally went to the jury upon count one alone of the declaration, is in tort by Burke against Beaman alleging the purchase from him by Burke of fifty shares of stock in a corporation, induced by Beaman’s deceit in misrepresenting the assets and liabilities of the corporation and other facts material to the value of the stock.
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