LIPSON v. ADELSON


17 Mass. App. Ct. 90 (1983)

456 N.E.2d 470

SIDNEY J. LIPSON vs. SHELDON G. ADELSON & another.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

November 16, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ira H. Zaleznik for the defendants.

Edward Rabinovitz (Roger B. Sherman with him) for the plaintiff.

Present: ARMSTRONG, KAPLAN, & KASS, JJ.


ARMSTRONG, J.

On May 1, 1970, the defendants signed a promissory note for $7,500, payable in ninety days, with interest at eighteen percent per annum. The plaintiff signed the note as an accommodation party, and, when the defendants failed to pay the note off at maturity, the plaintiff was asked to, and did, pay the holder. In 1979 the plaintiff brought this action to collect on the note and recovered a judgment under Mass.R.Civ.P. 56(a), 365 Mass. 824 (1974). The...

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