Hammond
Hammond v. Haskell
Opinion
lead Opinion
Shaw, J.
Action to recover upon a promissory note made and executed by defendants to plaintiff. Judgment went for plaintiff, from which defendants Haskell and Pike appeal upon the judgment-roll accompanied by bill of exceptions.
It appears from the findings that the note was made and delivered in consideration of an agreement whereby plaintiff promised defendants to return and surrender to a corporation known as the Home Bond and Building Association certain shares of stock which he owned and held in said corporation.
Contending that they are not supported by the evidence, appellants attack certain findings to the effect that plaintiff indorsed the certificate for the said shares of stock so owned by him and surrendered and delivered the same to defendant Boring B. Haskell on behalf of the said Home Bond and Building Association, who received and accepted the same from the plaintiff for and on behalf of the association; that at said time Haskell did not make any objection whatever to the mode of delivery, so made by plaintiff to him on behalf of said corporation.
The note was delivered on November 19, 1907, and payable December 1, 1907. The testimony of Haskell is to the effect that he…