Towle v. Larrabee
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Assumpsit .upon a promissory note, dated Feb. 25, 1831, given by the defendant to the intestate, for the sum of fifty dollars and interest.
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Assumpsit .upon a promissory note, dated Feb. 25, 1831, given by the defendant to the intestate, for the sum of fifty dollars and interest. The defendant, with the general issue, filed • a brief statement, wherein he alleged, that the note was made and delivered by the defendant to the plaintiff’s intestate on the Lord’s day between the midnight preceding and the sunsetting of that day; that the note was given as the consideration for a horse, sold by the intestate to the defendant; and that the contract of sale was entered into and executed, and the horse delivered, on that day, between the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was by
Shepley J.
—The promissory note, upon which this suit was instituted, was made on the Lord’s day, for the purchase money *466to be paid for a horse sold and delivered on the same day before sunset.
The statute then provided “ that no person or persons whatsoever shall keep open his, her or their shop, warehouse, or workhouse, nor shall upon land or water do any manner of labor, business, or work, works of necessity and charity only excepted,” “ on the Lord’s day, or any part thereof, upon penalty of a sum not exceeding six dollars and sixty-six cents, nor less than…
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