Bradley v. Davis
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Assumpsit upon a note of which the following is a copy: — “$2292,96. “Boston, May 20, 1835. “ Value received, I promise to pay Amos Davis, or bearer, two thousand two hundred, and ninety-two dollars, at the Suffolk Bank, Boston, in two years, with interest annually. “ Witness, Samuel P. Button. “ Erasmus Holbrook. ” The note was indorsed by Amos Davis.
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Assumpsit upon a note of which the following is a copy: — “$2292,96. “Boston, May 20, 1835. “ Value received, I promise to pay Amos Davis, or bearer, two thousand two hundred, and ninety-two dollars, at the Suffolk Bank, Boston, in two years, with interest annually. “ Witness, Samuel P. Button. “ Erasmus Holbrook. ” The note was indorsed by Amos Davis. At the trial before Whitman C. J. the signatures were admitted ; and the plaintiff, to show that Davis was liable as in-dorser, read in evidence the protest by Charles Hayward, as a Notary Public ; a deposition of Playward, taken by the…
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WhitmaN C. J.
— The parties have agreed, that the Court instead of the jury, shall ascertain the facts legally proved in this case, and decide whether, according to the rules of law, the plaintiff is entitled to recover. This depends upon the question, whether the defendant as indorser of a note, was duly notified of its non-payment by the maker. The defendant’s place of abode w'as at Bangor in this State. The note was payable at a bank in Boston; and was put into the hands of Charles Hayward, who, according to his testimony, had been a Notary Public in…
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