29 A. 845 | N.H. | 1892
The instrument contains an unconditional promise of Isaac Sanborn to pay Nellie F. Sanborn, or her order, ten hundred dollars at his decease, with interest at five per cent. annually. Isaac's death was an event that must occur in the course of nature, and a payment to be made at that time would certainly become due. The phrase "to be allowed" was evidently introduced in view of the fact that payment was not to be made by the signer in his lifetime, but was to be allowed or paid out of his estate after his decease. It could have been omitted without changing the meaning. The instrument, in form and substance, is a negotiable promissory note. Sto. Pr. Notes, s. 27; 1 Dan. Neg. Ins., s. 46; Alexander v. Follet,
New trial.
BLODGETT, J., did not sit: the others concurred.