Singer v. Dondis

Action of assumpsit by an endorsee against an accommodation endorser of a promissory note. The Justice who *375by agreement heard the case, without intervention of a jury, found for the plaintiff, to which the defendant excepted.

The facts are uncontraverted. In the Summer of 1933, one Rub-enstein, a clothing dealer in Rockland, became an involuntary bankrupt, the plaintiff, a wholesale merchant in Boston, being one of his creditors. A'-composition for twenty per cent was obtained. At first the plaintiff flatly refused to join but did finally, on the condition that he receive, in addition to the…