Craft v. South Boston Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on a promissory note for twenty-five hundred dollars, payable on demand to the order of the plaintiff, and signed “ South Boston Railroad Co., by Wm. Reed, Treas.” A count was added by amendment to the declaration for the recovery of the same amount, as money received by the defendant for the plaintiff’s use. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Sherman, J., who found for the plaintiff, and reported the case for the determination of this court.
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Contract on a promissory note for twenty-five hundred dollars, payable on demand to the order of the plaintiff, and signed “ South Boston Railroad Co., by Wm. Reed, Treas.” A count was added by amendment to the declaration for the recovery of the same amount, as money received by the defendant for the plaintiff’s use. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Sherman, J., who found for the plaintiff, and reported the case for the determination of this court. The material facts appear in the opinion. The case was argued at the bar in January, 1889, and after-wards was submitted on…
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
William Reed was treasurer of the defendant, and also a broker. As broker he sold bonds for the plaintiff and sent to her his personal check for the proceeds, amounting to twenty-five hundred and seventy-five dollars, and at the same time wrote to her as follows : “ If you wish to loan this on call, can lend it to South Boston Railroad Company at five per cent interest, and you can have it at any time at one day’s notice.” The plaintiff thereupon called upon Reed, and said that she would lend twenty-five hundred dollars to the defendant, and she gave back to him his check, and two days ,…
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