Fletcher v. Grover
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Assumpsit, for money paid, laid out and expended. This cause came before this court upon the following agreed statement of facts : In 1835, or 1836, the defendant and William Abbot purchased a house and land of John J. Ayer, in Concord, and took a conveyance of it.
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Assumpsit, for money paid, laid out and expended. This cause came before this court upon the following agreed statement of facts : In 1835, or 1836, the defendant and William Abbot purchased a house and land of John J. Ayer, in Concord, and took a conveyance of it. They mortgaged the house and land to Ayer, to secure the payment of their joint note for $800, given to Ayer for a part of the price of the land purchased, and also mortgaged the same to the N. H. Savings Bank, to secure the payment of their joint note for $2000, for money by them had of said Savings Bank, and by them paid to Ayer.…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
This is an attempt, by the representative of one joint debtor, to recover of another joint debtor a sum of money, which he alleges he has been compelled to pay, and has paid, for that other ; claiming a right, under the circumstances of the case, to recover a moiety of the sums by him paid, as found by the case, on account of the joint liability of the intestate and defendant.
It appears from the case, that the intestate and the defendant were joint debtors, in two several sums, amounting in the whole to the sum of $2-996, which sums were allowed by the commissioner of insolvency, against the…
2Cited by1 opinion
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