Haskins v. Lombard
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Assumpsit on a note from the defendants to the plaintiffs for $2169,04, dated Jan. 1, 1833, payable in two years from date. The defendants read in evidence a paper under seal, dated August 16,1834, signed by the plaintiffs and by Abbe and Bradley, which is referred to in the opinion of the Court.
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Assumpsit on a note from the defendants to the plaintiffs for $2169,04, dated Jan. 1, 1833, payable in two years from date. The defendants read in evidence a paper under seal, dated August 16,1834, signed by the plaintiffs and by Abbe and Bradley, which is referred to in the opinion of the Court. This paper recited the previous transactions between the parties; the embarrassment of Lombard and the other defendants, and that “ whereas the undersigned are desirous of procuring from said Lombard further and better security for the payment and discharge of said notes and obligation, after making…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was drawn up by
Shepley J.
This case having been argued upon a motion for a new trial as well as upon the report, without a full report of the testimony, it becomes necessary to state briefly some of the prominent facts which do not appear in the report. Before the first of January, 1833, the plaintiffs, and Able and Bradley, and Salmon Niles, had purchased of the State one undivided half of the west part of township numbered four in the first range of townships north of the Bingham Penobscot purchase, and had given their notes to the State to pay for the same in yearly…
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