Demelman v. Burton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, upon a promissory note. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Sherman, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
The declaration was upon a note alleged to have been made by the defendant payable to his own order and by him indorsed to the plaintiff.
The answer contained several independent defences, one of which was a denial of the genuineness of the “ signature of said note,” and another was that “ there was no lawful consideration for the same.”
Interrogatories were filed by the plaintiff to the defendant. Of these the first ten related to the issue as to the genuineness *364of the signature, the eleventh to the writing of other parts of the note, and the twelfth to the delivery of the note, while the…
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