Greenlief v. Watson
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. Action by an indorsee upon the two following promissory notes: "$23.86. Mt. Vernon, March 8, 1884. ' On demand after date I promise to pay to the order of M. S. Mayhew, twenty-three and 86-100 dollars at Mt. Vernon, with interest. Value received. John R. 'Watson.” [Indorsed :] "Harriet A Mayhew, Admr’x.” "$14.00. Mt. Vernon, October 18, 1883. On the first day of March after date I promise to pay to the order of M. S. Mayhew, fourteen dollars at Mt.
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On exceptions. Action by an indorsee upon the two following promissory notes: "$23.86. Mt. Vernon, March 8, 1884. ' On demand after date I promise to pay to the order of M. S. Mayhew, twenty-three and 86-100 dollars at Mt. Vernon, with interest. Value received. John R. 'Watson.” [Indorsed :] "Harriet A Mayhew, Admr’x.” "$14.00. Mt. Vernon, October 18, 1883. On the first day of March after date I promise to pay to the order of M. S. Mayhew, fourteen dollars at Mt. Vernon, with interest after. Value received. John R. Watson.” [Indorsed :] "Harriet A. Mayhew, Adm’x.” The defendant contended,…
1Opinion of the CourtHaskell, J.
Assumpsit on two promissory notes payable "at Mt. Vernon one on demand, and the other upon a day certain. No demand of payment of either note was averred or proved. The law did not require it. Neither note was made payable at a place certain, within the meaning of If. S., c. 32, § 10 ; and, if they were, the latter was not made payable there on demand. Stone v. Colburn, 30 Maine, 32; Patterson v. Vose, 43 Maine, 552.
"At Mt. Vernon” cannot be considered, in this case, as a place certain. It is the name of a town in this state, of which the court takes judicial notice. If it were the name of a…
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