Perry v. Bigelow
Cases that cite this one
14 later published cases cite this decision.
- Cockrell v. Taylor (Fla. 1936)
- Wolff v. Perkins (Mass. 1925)
- Leach v. Nelson (N.D. 1922)
- Louis Eckels & Sons Ice Manufacturing Co. v. Cornell Economizer Co. (Md. 1912)
- Rivers v. Brown (Fla. 1911)
- Paulson v. Boyd (Wis. 1908)
- Knight v. W. T. Walker Brick Co. (D.C. Cir. 1904)
- Henry Wood's Sons Co. v. Schaefer (Mass. 1899)
- Beaty v. Carr (Iowa 1899)
- Leonard v. Miner (Cal. 1898)
- Lincoln Nat. Bank v. Perry (8th Cir. 1895)
- Nash v. Minnesota Title Insurance & Trust Co. (Mass. 1893)
- Thomas v. Barnes (Mass. 1892)
- Kulenkamp v. Groff (Mich. 1888)
This list shows which later cases cite this one. It does not say how they treated it, and no review of that has been done. Not a substitute for Shepard’s or KeyCite — verify before relying.
Opinion of the Court
The defendant’s written contract was a negotiable promissory note, requiring him to pay a certain sum of money at a definite time. The evidence which he sought to introduce was for the purpose of showing that this written contract was not the real contract" between the parties; that the note was merely a memorandum; and that certain certificates of stock described in the note as collateral security should operate as payment of the note at its maturity, if it were not previously paid. This evidence could not be received without doing violence to the ruli
Judgment on the verdict.
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