Legal Opinion

Woodruff v. Plant

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided September 15, 1874PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Assumpsit upon a bank check; brought m the Court of Common Pleas for Hartford County. The court made a finding of the facts and reserved the case for the advice of this court. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the Court

Poster, J., The parties to this suit resided in Southington, twenty-two miles from New Haven. They met together on the morning of the 24th of March, 1873, and in the settlement of some business transactions the defendant gave the plaintiff his check for $40 on E. S. Scranton & Co., a banking company in New Haven. The plaintiff then requested the defendant to give him another check for $425, counting out to him bank bills to that amount. The reason of the request was, that the plaintiff was indebted to one Goodwin, who resided at Lime Rock in Litchfield County, to whom he was about making a…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Mohawk Bank v. BroderickCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1834
  2. Daggett v. WhitingSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1868

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Anderson v. GillCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1894
  2. Gordon v. LevineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
  3. Holmes v. RoeMichigan Supreme Court · 1886
  4. Beauregard v. KnowltonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
  5. Joppa v. Clark Commission Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1929

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