1 Mass. 1 (1804)
Court	Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Full case name	THOMAS GOLD, Plaintiff in Review vs. JOSHUA EDDY, Administrator
Argued	September Term 1804
Decided	September Term 1804
Citation	1 Mass. 1 (1804)
Case history
Subsequent action	none
Holding
In an action by the endorser against the promisor of a promissory note negotiated subsequent to the day of payment, the defendant may go into such evidence as he would have been entitled to had the action been brought by the original promisee. The deposition of a person used in a former trial is competent evidence in a review, though the deponent is a party to the suit, having become administrator of one of the original parties.
Court membership
Chief judge	Francis Dana
Associate judges	Simeon Strong, Theodore Sedgwick, Samuel Sewall, George Thacher
Laws applied
Acts of 1788, ch. 47; Acts of 1786, ch. 66

Gold v. Eddy, 1 Mass. 1 (1804), was the first recorded case in the official reports of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

According to the reporter's summation:

In an action by the endorser against the promisor of a promissory note negotiated subsequent to the day of payment, the defendant may go into such evidence as he would have been entitled to had the action been brought by the original promisee. The deposition of a person used in a former trial is competent evidence in a review, though the deponent is a party to the suit, having become administrator of one of the original parties.^[1]

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