Sproat v. Porter
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Assumpsit and quantum meruit for services and labors performed by the plaintiff at the request of the defendants. The action was tried before Parker, J., upon the general issue joined, at an adjourned session of the last October term in this county, holden here in April last.
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Assumpsit and quantum meruit for services and labors performed by the plaintiff at the request of the defendants. The action was tried before Parker, J., upon the general issue joined, at an adjourned session of the last October term in this county, holden here in April last. The case made out at the trial by the plaintiff, as reported by the judge, was as follows: In the year 1804, the defendants associated for the purpose of instituting a bank at Taunton, and subscribed their names in a book, engaging to take the number of shares set against their names respectively. The plaintiff was…
1Opinion of the Court
Curia.
When the defendants associated for the purpose of obtaining a charter for a bank, to be established in this town, it is to be presumed that they understood the usual course in which charters of that nature are obtained. There must be a petition to the legislature. There must then be some person whose duty it is to exhibit to the legislature the grounds on which the petition rests, and who is able to remove doubts and objections that may arise. Such a person, it may always be supposed, will be entitled to a *273reasonable compensation for his services, whether he succeeds in his undertaking…
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