Lanahan v. Porter
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on a bond for a review. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the plaintiffs, to this court, on appeal, on an agreed statement of facts, the substance of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
The plaintiffs, who compose the partnership of William Lanahan and Son, brought suit against Fred L. Porter and Mary Porter on a promissory note, and recovered judgment against them on December 29, 1884. The defendants thereupon filed a petition for setting aside this judgment, pursuant to the Pub. Sts. c. 187, § 17, and gave, with sureties, the bond on which the present suit was brought. See Pub. Sts. c. 187, § 19.
The judgment was vacated on December 13, 1886, and the plaintiffs thereafter filed in the original suit, by the consent of the defendants in that suit, an amended declaration, on…
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