Hyde v. Lawrence
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit upon a promissory note. Plea, the general issue, and trial by the court, March Term, 1876, Wheeler, J., presiding.
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Assumpsit upon a promissory note. Plea, the general issue, and trial by the court, March Term, 1876, Wheeler, J., presiding. The declaration alleged that defendant executed and delivered to the Wardens and Vestry of Christ Church, Hampton, a promissory note, whereby for value received he promised to pay said Wardens and Vestry, or bearer, three years from date thereof, $600, with interest; that afterwards, plaintiff became, and at the time of declaring was, the bearer of said note, whereby, &c. Plaintiff offered in evidence a note such as was declared upon, except that it was the joint note…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Pierpoint, C. J.
This is an action brought by the plaintiff as the bearer of a note executed by the defendant to the Wardens and Vestry of Christ Church, Hampton, or bearer. No question is made as to the execution of the note, nor as to defendant’s liability to pay it, but it is insisted that the payee of the note was a corporation at the time the note was executed, but that since the execution of the note, and before it passed into the hands of this plaintiff, said corporation, not keeping up its organization, had become extinct, and therefore that…
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