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27 Mass. 258

Plympton v. Cutler

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided October 15, 1830

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1830-10-15

Assumpsit by the administrator of G. Cooper, on a note made by the defendant to the intestate. Plea, the general issue. The note declared on was produced by the plaintiff. The defendant then gave in evidence a judgment rendered in 1824 against Cooper as principal and the defendant as his trustee, in favor of N. M.‘Intire. Upon this judgment an execution had been issued, but had not been returned.

Decided 1830-10-15

Per Curiam.

¶1In order to make out the defence, it should appear either that judgment was rendered against the defendant upon his answers, in the suit of M‘Intire against the intestate, or that M‘Intire had agreed that his demand against the intestate should be set off against the debt due from himself to the defendant. But neither of these facts appears. Whether the defendant was charged as trustee in M‘Intire’s suit, is not stated; nor does it appear that the judgment in favor of M‘Intire against the intestate has been satisfied or discharged. On the contrary, a part of the money was raised on the execution, out of the effects, we suppose, of the intestate. Nor is there any discharge of the defendant’s demand against M‘Intire. The whole transaction was unfinished and incomplete ; and when the note in suit was given, it was left in the hands of a third person, to be delivered to one or other of the parties after a settlement with M‘Intire. No such settlement has taken place. The administrator of the intestate, therefore, has a right to the note and to this action upon it. The defendant’s demand against M‘Intire remains in force ; and MTntire must look to the estate for his demand against the intestate.

¶2Judgment for plaintiff.

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