Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1851

Pray v. Maine

Pray v. Maine
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided March 15, 1851 · Shaw
61 Mass. 253

Counsel

Joel P. Bishop, for the defendant., F. W. Sawyer, for the plaintiff.

Pray v. Maine

Opinion of the Court

Shaw, C. J.

No title is shown by the defendant to the note relied upon as a set-off. Wingate, though he put his name on the back of the note, was still a promisor to Chandler & *254Maine, as settled in Hunt v. Adams, 5 Mass. 358, and 6 Mass. 519. The note was therefore extinguished, by payment by a promisor, who could not again put it in circulation as against a co-promisor. The only right that Wingate derived, or could derive, from the payment thus made by him as surety and co-promisor, was to claim the amount of Pray for money paid at his request, and for his use, and that right was not negotiable. Exceptions overruled

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