Winsted Savings Bank v. Town of New Hartford
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover the amount of a loan to a school district, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Litchfield County, Shumway, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff to recover ¿6,500 of the school district, but with interest at four per cent, only, and for the school district to recover, on its cross-complaint, ¿1,300 of the town, from which both the plaintiff and the town appealed.
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Action to recover the amount of a loan to a school district, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Litchfield County, Shumway, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff to recover ¿6,500 of the school district, but with interest at four per cent, only, and for the school district to recover, on its cross-complaint, ¿1,300 of the town, from which both the plaintiff and the town appealed. Prior to October 4th, 1897, there were in the defendant town of New Hartford nine school districts and three parts of districts. In each of said districts and parts of districts was a…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
The plaintiff complains that the amount of its judgment is too small, in that interest upon the principal sum was computed at four per cent, and no more, for the whole period of time from November 15th, 1898, the date to which interest had been paid, down to the date of judgment. It contends that interest at the rate of six per cent, should have been allowed as damages from either said November 15th or the date of the service of the writ.
As no time of payment is stated in the orders they were in legal effect payable on demand. Bacon v. Page, 1 Conn. 404; Raymond v. Sellick, 10 id. 480. As…
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