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171 Mass. 347

Heim v. Chapman

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1898-05-23

Contract, upon a promissory note. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendant rendered by Wardwell, J., to this court on appeal, upon agreed facts, in substance as follows. The defendant was the maker and the plaintiff the payee of the note, which was for one hundred dollars, and was dated December 6, 1870.

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 2003

3 state decisions

Relies on Way v. Howe · Black v. Blazo · Fuller v. Pease

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Decided 1898-05-23

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Morton, J.

¶1The sole question in this case is whether the intentional omission of the plaintiff’s name by the defendant from the schedule of his creditors in the bankruptcy proceedings, and the payment by the defendant to the plaintiff on the note during their pendency, prevents the defendant from setting up the discharge as a bar. The only respect in which this case differs from other eases in which a similar question has been considered by this court consists in the fact of the payment. See Fuller v. Pease, 144 Mass. 390; Kempton v. Saunders, 130 Mass. 236; Black v. Blazo, 117 Mass. 17; Way v. Howe, 108 Mass. 502.

¶2But that did not constitute a new promise in writing within Gen. Sts. c. 105, § 3, now Pub. Sts. c. 78, § 3, which were then in force. Jacobs v. Carpenter, 161 Mass. 16. And the fact that the payment may have been made with fraudulent intent does not avoid the discharge. Fuller v. Pease, 144 Mass. 390.

¶3Judgment for the defendant.

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