Storer v. Logan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Assumpsit by the payee, against the defendants as ac ceptors of two bills of exchange, drawn by Lemuel Weeks *<5y Son, dated December 19, 1807, one for 300Z. sterling, and the other for 3151. sterling, and payable in ninety days after sight.
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Assumpsit by the payee, against the defendants as ac ceptors of two bills of exchange, drawn by Lemuel Weeks *<5y Son, dated December 19, 1807, one for 300Z. sterling, and the other for 3151. sterling, and payable in ninety days after sight. The evidence relied on at the trial before Sewall, J., to charge the defendants as acceptors, was a letter written by Samuel Lenox, one of the defendants, who are copartners at Liverpool, in Great Britain, under the firm of Logan, Lenox &f Co., dated at Portland, November 4, 1807, and addressed to Messrs. Weeks fy Son. This letter, a copy of which came up…
1Opinion of the CourtSewall, J.
The question of the competency of Lemuel Weeks as a witness, and, as it has been argued at the bar, the competency of his testimony, as used in this cause, may be considered as reserved at the trial; the verdict found for the defendants depending very much, if not altogether, upon the admissibility and effect of this evidence.
The bill of exchange, on which this action is brought, was drawn by Lemuel Weeks &/■ Son, one of whom is the Mr. Weeks offered as a witness at the trial. It is addressed to the defendants, and made payable to the plaintiff, for value received of him. This bill, produced…
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