¶1The defendants not having pleaded payment or satisfaction, nor appearing to have offered any evidence thereof, the ruling below that the plaintiff could not recover in this action (which is evidently not a finding or conclusion of fact, but a decision that the plaintiff could not recover as matter of law) was erroneous. O'Neal v. Kittredge, 3 Allen, 470. Linton v. Hurley, 114 Mass. 76. Exceptions sustained.
121 Mass. 551
Wilson v. Hatfield
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 10, 1877
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1877-01-10
Contract on a judgment recovered by the plaintiff in the Superior Court. Answer, a general denial. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Bacon, J., the plaintiff put in evidence the docket record of the proceedings in the action in which the judgment was recovered, and also the papers in the case, the record not having been extended.
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Decided 1877-01-10
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