Thrall v. Spencer
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN ERROR. This was a bill in chancery to obtain the benefit of certain articles of household furniture. Silas Andrus having indorsed, for the accommodation of Benoni B. Barber, three promissory notes of 1000 dollars each, dated February 21st, 1839, payable in one year, Barber, on the 12th of October, 1839, as security to Andrus, for such indorsements, mortgaged to him, by one deed, certain parcels of real estate, and by another deed, the articles of furniture mentioned in…
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IN ERROR. This was a bill in chancery to obtain the benefit of certain articles of household furniture. Silas Andrus having indorsed, for the accommodation of Benoni B. Barber, three promissory notes of 1000 dollars each, dated February 21st, 1839, payable in one year, Barber, on the 12th of October, 1839, as security to Andrus, for such indorsements, mortgaged to him, by one deed, certain parcels of real estate, and by another deed, the articles of furniture mentioned in the bill. These notes afterwards, before they became due, and while they remained wholly unpaid, passed into the hands of…
1Opinion of the CourtWaite, J.
It appears from the bill and report in this case, that Barber made three notes, of one thousand dollars each, payable to Andrus, or order, in one year, which Andrus, at the request, and for the accommodation of Barber, indorsed. For the security of Andrus, in consequence of his having so indorsed these notes, Barber mortgaged to him, by one deed, certain parcels of real estate, and by another deed, certain articles of household furniture. After these notes had gone into the hands of bona fide holders, and finally had become the property of the plaintiff, Andrus released to Barber all his…
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