Rowe v. Bowman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on a promissory note dated April 7, 1899, for $2,000, payable in two years from its date with interest at the rate of six per cent per annum, and bearing on its face United States revenue stamps to the amount of forty cents cancelled “4/7/99/ W. H. B.” Writ dated July 1, 1901. At the trial in the Superior Court before Maynard, J., the defendant asked the judge to rule that the evidence as to the affixing of the stamps and their cancellation by the plaintiff proved a…
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Contract on a promissory note dated April 7, 1899, for $2,000, payable in two years from its date with interest at the rate of six per cent per annum, and bearing on its face United States revenue stamps to the amount of forty cents cancelled “4/7/99/ W. H. B.” Writ dated July 1, 1901. At the trial in the Superior Court before Maynard, J., the defendant asked the judge to rule that the evidence as to the affixing of the stamps and their cancellation by the plaintiff proved a material alteration of the note by the plaintiff and that he could not recover thereon. The judge refused so to rule.…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
This is an action on a promissory note signed by the defendant and one Grace Helen Meyer.
The defendant offered to prove that the note in suit was given as a renewal of a former note which had been given under the following circumstances: The defendant applied to the plaintiff for a loan of $2,000 to Mrs. Meyer, “ the other maker of the *490note in suit, and stated to the plaintiff that if two names were necessary on the note, he would put his name upon it, and asked the plaintiff if two names were necessary and the plaintiff said they were; that the defendant then said, ‘ In that case I will put…
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