Case ID: conn-supp_2/html/0163-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DICKENSON, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

F. C. POWELL vs. THE BODWELL REALTY CO.
    Superior Court New Haven County
    File #46394
    Present: Hon. EDWIN C. DICKENSON, Judge.
    Lyman H. Steele, Attorney for the Plaintiff.
    Thomas R. FitzSimmons, Attorney for the Defendant.
    MEMORANDUM FILED OCTOBER 6, 1935.
   DICKENSON, J.

It is set up in the complaint that the notes in suit were executed by the president of the defendant corporation “under the seal of the defendant which seal was attached and affixed to said note at said time.” The notes have not been set up in the complaint nor have they been made a part of the pleadings by motion.

It is said in Caputo vs. DeLoretto, 110 Conn., 413, quoting from another case, “Whether an instrument is under seal or not is a question for the court upon inspection. . . .”

But it would appear by General Statutes 1930, Sec. 5615, that while where an individual or corporation has no official or corporate seal and executes an instrument, evidence may be introduced that the instrument was intended to be a spe' cialty or under seal, but where a corporate seal is affixed the instrument is “deemed in all respects a sealed instrument.”

The demurrer is sustained.