Hatch v. Proctor
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract by the administrator of the estate of Frank J, Hatch, for the price of goods, belonging to the estate, sold and delivered to George L. Lawrence at the request of the defendants.
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Contract by the administrator of the estate of Frank J, Hatch, for the price of goods, belonging to the estate, sold and delivered to George L. Lawrence at the request of the defendants. At the trial in the superior court, before Brigham, C. J., the plaintiff offered to show that Frank J. Hatch died in 1866; that in October 1867, the plaintiff, (who was the brother of Frank J. Hatch,) acting as executor in his own wrong, sold and conveyed the goods in question, (which belonged to the estate,) to Lawrence, in consideration of the oral promise of the defendants to the plaintiff to pay him $1700…
1Opinion of the CourtColt, J.
The case presented in the offer of evidence is this The plaintiff, acting, with the knowledge of the defendants, as *353executor in his own wrong of his deceased brother’s estate, delivered certain personal property, with a bill of sale and warranty of title, to one Lawrence, in consideration of the verbal promise of the defendants to pay the plaintiff $1700 towards the price thereof. At the time of the sale and delivery, the defendants took a mortgage from Lawrence to secure them the amount to be paid, and no credit appears to have been given to him by the plaintiff. The property passed into the…
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