Bayley v. Taber
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The declaration in this action contained thirty-seven counts upon as many promissory notes, alleged to have been made by the defendants, each under five dollars, payable to bearer on demand, for value received, and bearing date between the third day of October and the thirtieth day of December, 1804.
1Opinion of the Court
Afterwards, at an adjournment of the March term, in the county of Suffolk, holden in July following, the opinion of the Court was delivered as follows, by
Parker, J.
This cause was tried before me at the sittings after the last law term, in Cumberland, in May last; and I then inclined to the opinion, that the defendants should not be permitted to allege a *223falsity in an instrument made and signed by themselves, and which had by them been put into general circulation as money. Notes of this description, under the denomination of Taber’s notes, to a large amount, having become a common currency in…
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