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- Title: Leonard v. Woodward
- Author : Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
- Release Date : January 28, 1940
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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QUA, Justice. This action is upon a promissory note for $1,500, payable on demand to the plaintiff's intestate and signed
on its face, apparently as joint makers, by the defendant and one Emery. At the trial and at the argument before us the defendant
took the position that he signed the note for the accommodation of the plaintiff's intestate, and that as to him the note
was without consideration. He saved his rights on these points by a motion for a directed verdict, by requests for rulings,
and by exceptions to portions of the charge claimed to be inconsistent with his requests. Evidence favoring the plaintiff tended to show that the plaintiff found the note in her intestate's safe deposit box; that
on the day of the date of the note her intestate lent $1,500 to Emery by giving him a check for that amount; and that Emery
was the defendant's father-in-law. The defendant testified that he signed the note for the accommodationof the plaintiff's
intestate and received nothing of value for so doing; that he was acquainted with the plaintiff's intestate but was not related
to him; that Emery asked him to sign as an accommodation to the plaintiff's intestate, as the latter wanted a note with joint
makers, so that he could discount it at the bank if he wished to do so; that when the note was signed both the plaintiff's
intestate and Emery understood that the defendant was not to be held responsible by either of them; and that the defendant
never authorized or consented to the check for $1,500 being made payable to Emery.