Rowland v. Hackel
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for $2,676.52, alleged to be a balance due upon a loan agreement, made, in the circumstances described in the opinion, between the plaintiff, a flour merchant, and the defendant and one Dwight L. Marshall who respectively were the treasurer and the president of the Marshall-Hackel Company, a Massachusetts corporation.
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Contract for $2,676.52, alleged to be a balance due upon a loan agreement, made, in the circumstances described in the opinion, between the plaintiff, a flour merchant, and the defendant and one Dwight L. Marshall who respectively were the treasurer and the president of the Marshall-Hackel Company, a Massachusetts corporation. Writ dated November 6, 1918. In the Superior Court, the action was tried before Lawton, J. Material evidence and rulings by the judge, to which the defendant saved exceptions, are described in the opinion. The jury found for the plaintiff in the sum of $3,056.46; and…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
This is an action to recover the balance due on $2,000, alleged to have been loaned by an oral contract to the defendant and one Marshall as copartners or as individuals, with interest and in addition one cent on every barrel of flour sold by the Marshall-Hackel Company a corporation, during twelve months, beginning with May 1, 1911, in their offices in Boston and Minneapolis, with a minimum of one hundred thousand barrels. The date of the contract is not shown but it could not in any event have been earlier than April 28, 1911. It is assumed to have been made on that date. There was evidence…
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