Supreme Judicial Court of Maine July 1, 1854 (Lincoln Academy v. Newhall)

lead-opinion

Tenney, J.

— The suit is upon a promissory note, admitted to have been given by the defendants to the plaintiffs, and attested by a subscribing witness, at the time it was executed. It became payable according to its tenor on November 24, 1829, and upon it are six indorsements of various sums at different times; the first being on May 8, 1830, and the last on December 5, 1838.