Plimpton v. Goodell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on a promissoty note for $729, payable to the plaintiff or bearer. Trial in the Superior Court, before Allen, J., who ordered a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount of the note, and reported the case for the consideration of this court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtColt, J.
The' promissory note in suit was executed by the defendant jointly and severally with her husband, since deceased. Her only defence at the trial was, that there was not sufficient consideration shown to charge the defendant, she being a married woman when the note was given, for the whole or any part of the note. The court ruled otherwise, and ordered a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount; and, without doubt, this ruling is correct.
The note was given in April 1869, in renewal of a note, originally made in January 1866, by the defendant and her husband, payable to the order of Daniel…
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