Barker v. Loring
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, on a promissory note for $100 dated July 25,1896, made by the defendant, payable four months after date to the order of George A. Russell and by Russell indorsed to the plaintiff. The declaration alleged that the defendant owed the plaintiff “ the amount of said note and interest, and costs of protest, $1.54.” The answer specially denied the genuineness of' all the signatures, including the indorsements.
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Contract, on a promissory note for $100 dated July 25,1896, made by the defendant, payable four months after date to the order of George A. Russell and by Russell indorsed to the plaintiff. The declaration alleged that the defendant owed the plaintiff “ the amount of said note and interest, and costs of protest, $1.54.” The answer specially denied the genuineness of' all the signatures, including the indorsements. Writ dated August 22, 1898. The case was tried in the Superior Court, before Richardson, J., who, against the defendant’s objection, admitted in evidence the note itself, and the…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
This is an action by an indorsee against the maker of a promissory note. The jury were instructed as *390follows: “If yon find, — it seems to me, Mr. Foreman and gentlemen, this is all I need to say to you, very briefly, — if you find, upon this evidence, that this is Mr. Loring’s note, that he signed it, then, so far as I can see, the plaintiff is entitled to recover this note and the interest after four months, at the rate of six per cent per annum, and the protest, costs of protest, which are $1.54.” From the bill of exceptions we understand this to have been the whole charge. The defendant…
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