Taylor v. Slater
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Bill in Equity to enforce against the estates of deceased partners the payment of a demand promissory note given by the partnership just before it ceased to do business and nearly twenty-five years before the commencement of the present suit. Heard on demurrer to the bill setting up the statute of limitations and laches.
1Opinion of the CourtStiness, J.
The complainant, a married woman, brings this bill to enforce the payment of a promissory note, on demand, against the representatives of the estate of Earl' P. Mason and William S. Slater, deceased, and legatees and heirs of said Mason and Slater. The note, for the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, was given to her August 3, 1872, for money advanced out of her estate to the firm of Taylor & Wright, of Chicago, the firm consisting of Erank C. Taylor, her husband, and John W. Wright, both of Chicago, and also of said Mason and Slater of this State. Soon after the date of the note the firm…
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