National Revere Bank v. Morse
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court, to recover of the defendant Morse the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars and interest, on a promissory note of his, payable to his own order, dated August 28,1890, by him indorsed in blank and given to R. Gardner Chase and Company as collateral security, and transferred by them before maturity to the plaintiff by delivery; and to reach and apply in payment thereof the defendant Morse’s interest in the estate of his father, Albert…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court, to recover of the defendant Morse the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars and interest, on a promissory note of his, payable to his own order, dated August 28,1890, by him indorsed in blank and given to R. Gardner Chase and Company as collateral security, and transferred by them before maturity to the plaintiff by delivery; and to reach and apply in payment thereof the defendant Morse’s interest in the estate of his father, Albert Morse. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Richardson, J., the defendant Morse asked the judge to instruct the…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
This case cannot be distinguished from Merchants' National Bank v. Haverhill Iron Works, 159 Mass. 158. In that case the note was signed by the Haverhill Iron Works, payable to its own order and by it indorsed in blank, and the note was also indorsed in blank by the other defendants. The defence in that case, as appears by the original bill of exceptions, was that the note had been fraudulently put into circulation by the Potter-Lovell Company, and that the plaintiff did not take it for value and without notice of the fraud. The Haverhill Iron Works sent the note to the Potter-Lovell Company…
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