Sullivan v. Langley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort against James H. Langley for fraudulently inducing the plaintiff to give him the plaintiff’s promissory note and an assignment of a savings bank book; and against Jesse F. Alderman and Edgar S. Bristol, partners under the firm name of Alderman & Co., for aiding and abetting therein.
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Tort against James H. Langley for fraudulently inducing the plaintiff to give him the plaintiff’s promissory note and an assignment of a savings bank book; and against Jesse F. Alderman and Edgar S. Bristol, partners under the firm name of Alderman & Co., for aiding and abetting therein. Trial in the Superior Court, before Brigham, C. J., who allowed a bill of exceptions in substance as follows: The plaintiff put in evidence tending to show that Langley fraudulently obtained the plaintiff’s note for $1000, on three months’ time, and the transfer of his bank account, then amounting to $1120,…
1Opinion of the Court
Deveíts, J.
Whether the note, which, together with a bank book, was sought to be recovered, was a negotiable promissory note, as contended by the defendants, need not here be discussed. While the court did not expressly rule that it was so, the instructions treated it as such, and applied the principles which govern in reference to the transfer of such securities. *443There was ample evidence that the note and bank book were obtained by the fraud of Langley, and were fraudulently transferred by him through Hiles to the defendants. Upon proof of this, even if the note were a negotiable promissory…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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