Blodgett v. Weed
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Three actions op contract. Writs dated October 28, 1878. The first action was by Roxie M. Blodgett and Susan A. Martin against James B. Weed, Frederick M. Weed, John Hill, D. B. Geary and D. W. Fuller, late copartners, doing business under the name of James B. Weed and Company, on the following promissory note, signed “ James B. Weed & Co.”: “ $2600. Binghamton, 1ST. Y., April 11, 1873. Six months after date we promise to pay to the order of Roxie M. Blodgett and Susan A.…
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Three actions op contract. Writs dated October 28, 1878. The first action was by Roxie M. Blodgett and Susan A. Martin against James B. Weed, Frederick M. Weed, John Hill, D. B. Geary and D. W. Fuller, late copartners, doing business under the name of James B. Weed and Company, on the following promissory note, signed “ James B. Weed & Co.”: “ $2600. Binghamton, 1ST. Y., April 11, 1873. Six months after date we promise to pay to the order of Roxie M. Blodgett and Susan A. Martin twenty-six hundred dollars, value received, payable at any bank in Boston, Mass.” The second action was by Albert…
1Opinion of the CourtColt, J.
The several notes of the firm of Weed & Co., signed by one of its members, were given to the several plaintiffs for money lent. It is found as a fact that the plaintiffs understood that they were dealing with the firm through a member of it, and had no actual knowledge, suspicion or cause of suspicion of any fraud practised upon the partnership in the transaction by any member of it; or that the money was not borrowed by the firm and the notes in suit not given by its authority; or that there was any purpose on the part of any member or members of the firm to obtain the money for private use.
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