Claflin v. Godfrey
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Assumpsit to recover the sum of $1722-77, with interest from June 17, 1833. The plaintiff proved, that on April 4, 1828, Stephen R. Parkhurst, Nathan Parkhurst, and Parmenas P. Parkhurst, copartners under the firm of Stephen R. Parkhurst & Co., made their promissory note to John Farnum, in the sum of $4500, and at the same time executed and delivered to him, as security for the note, a mortgage of real estate, by them owned, situate in Milford.
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Assumpsit to recover the sum of $1722-77, with interest from June 17, 1833. The plaintiff proved, that on April 4, 1828, Stephen R. Parkhurst, Nathan Parkhurst, and Parmenas P. Parkhurst, copartners under the firm of Stephen R. Parkhurst & Co., made their promissory note to John Farnum, in the sum of $4500, and at the same time executed and delivered to him, as security for the note, a mortgage of real estate, by them owned, situate in Milford. The real estate was then subject to two mortgages, one to D. Waldo, to secure the payment of $200, the other to R. Waldo, to secure the payment of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court (Shaw C. J. and Dewey J. dissenting) , was delivered by
Morton J.
We have bestowed unusual labor and care upon this case, and with our best efforts have found some difficulty in understanding the very complicated state of the facts, and stif more, in applying to them the principles of law by which the rights of the parties should be determined. We have the more carefully investigated the subject, because there has been from the beginning a difference of opinion among the members of the Court. And I regret to add, that with our most earnest endeavours we have not been…
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