130 Mass. 291
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 2, 1881
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1881-02-02
Contract against Laban S. Bond and John N. Grout upon a joint and several promissory note for $1000, dated May 13,1873, payable on demand to the order of the plaintiff, and signed by the defendants. Grout alone defended.
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Decided 1881-02-02
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 1975
1 district · 3 state decisions
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¶1The plaintiff is not barred of his action by any agreement of his own; because he has made no agreement to that effect. He is not barred by the proceedings under the statute of New Hampshire; because if such would be the effect of proceedings under that statute (which we need not decide) it is an insolvent law, the operation of which was suspended during the existence of the Bankrupt Act of the United States.
¶2Judgment for the plaintiff