Pierpont v. Longden
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit on a promissory note; brought by the plaintiff as assignee of the payee, to the Court of Common Pleas of New Haven County, and tried to the court before Cowell, J. Judgment for the defendants and motion for a new trial by the plaintiff. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
This is an action upon a promissory note, whereby the defendants for value received promised to pay Loly Platt or bearer "four hundred dollars three years after date with interest annually, the same having been duly assigned to the plaintiff. Upon the trial in the Court of Common Pleas for New Haven County at the May term, 1878, John W. Taylor testified that before the execution of the note there was a parol agreement between the defendants and Mrs. Platt that they were to pay for the use of her dower right in certain lands the interest upon four hundred dollars at six per cent., or pay four…
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