Powers v. Manning
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two action of contract, by an attorney at law and commissioner of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, to recover upon promissory notes and on an account annexed for services rendered in connection with claims before that court. At the trial without a jury, in the Superior Court, Sherman, J. found for the plaintiff, and allowed a bill of exceptions in each case, which, so far as material to the points decided, appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
These are two actions of contract, tried in the Superior Court, without a jury. In each case the presiding justice found for the plaintiff; and the case comes before us on the defendant’s exceptions.
The first count in the first case is on a promissory note, dated July 11, 1884, by the terms of which the defendant promised to pay the plaintiff the sum of $685, “ when the United States pays judgments of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims in the so called class 2 cases.”
The defendant asked the court to rule that this note did not become due and payable until the United States had paid…
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