Legal Opinion
Perry v. Manufacturers National Bank
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 27, 1944PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtQua, J.
This is an action for conversion of shares of stock pledged at the defendant bank as collateral for loans to the plaintiff evidenced by promissory notes payable on demand. When the notes were not paid on demand the defendant purported to sell the collateral to itself and credited its then value against the notes, leaving a substantial unpaid balance due on the notes. This was the alleged conversion.
When the case was here before (Perry v. Manufacturers National Bank, 305 Mass. 368), we held that when the defendant’s note teller drew a pencil line through the figure “5,” which designated the…
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