15 Mass. 427
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 15, 1819
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1819-03-15
This was assumpsit, to recover the balance of the plaintiff’s account for moneys advanced and paid by him for the use of the defendants; who pleaded certain laws of the state of Maryland, for the relief of insolvent debtors, in bar of the action; and the issue was, whether the cause of action accrued in Baltimore, in that state.
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Decided 1819-03-15
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1881
3 state decisions
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¶1The single question, in this case, is whether, when a commission merchant, residing and transacting his business in this state, shall have occasion to sue his correspondent, living in another stale, for the balance of his account, the cause of action shall be said to have arisen here, or in such other state ; and we are all of opinion the cause of action arises here, and that judgment, in this ease, be entered upon the verdict,
¶2Vide Tappan vs. Poor & Al., ante, 419