Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1876

Murphy v. Collins

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided September 12, 1876 · Gray

121 Mass. 6; 1876 Mass. LEXIS 260

Cases that cite this one

14 later published cases cite this decision.

Cameron v. Gunstock Acres, Inc. (Mass. 1976)
John B. Frey Co. v. S. Silk, Inc. (Mass. 1923)
Schoenberg v. Adler (Wis. 1900)
Montague v. The Henry B. Hyde (United States District Court for the Northern District of California 1897)
McGarry v. Nicklin (Ala. 1895)
Kelley v. Kelley (Mass. 1894)
St. Sure v. Lindsfelt (Wis. 1892)
Rudy v. Rio Grande Western Railway Co. (Utah 1892)
Frank v. Bobbitt (Mass. 1891)
Brown v. Jones (Ind. 1890)
O'Reilly v. N.Y. N.E.R.R. Co. (R.I. 1889)
O'Reilly v. New York & New England Railroad (R.I. 1889)
Daniels v. Pratt (Mass. 1887)
Board of Immigration v. da Estrella (Haw. 1884)

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Opinion of the Court

Gray, C. J.

The bill of exceptions does not show any error of law in the ruling of the court below. The note having been made and delivered in the State of New York, and not appearing to be payable elsewhere, its validity depended on the law of that state. Stevenson v. Payne, 109 Mass. 378. What that *7law was, was a question of fact, upon which no evidence appears to have been given at the trial, or can be introduced for the first time at the argument of the exceptions in this court. Knapp v. Abell, 10 Allen, 485. The contract was not void by the common law; and there is no presumption that the law of another state corresponds with a statute of this Commonwealth. Abell v. Douglass, 4 Denio, 305. Whitford v. Panama Railroad, 23 N. Y. 465. Ellis v. Maxson, 19 Mich. 186. Morrissey v. Wiggins Ferry Co. 47 Misso. 521. Dunn v. Adams, 1 Ala. 527.

Exceptions overruled.

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