Fleckner v. President of the Bank of the United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the District Court for the District of Louisiana. This was a suit brought by the *defendants in error against the plaintiff in error, in the court below, upon a promissory note made by him, dated the 26th of March 1818, for the sum of $10,000, payable to the order of one John Nelder, on the 1st of March 1820. The plaintiffs below, in their petition, made title to the note through several mesne indorsements, the last of which was, that of the President, The issue was…
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Error to the District Court for the District of Louisiana. This was a suit brought by the *defendants in error against the plaintiff in error, in the court below, upon a promissory note made by him, dated the 26th of March 1818, for the sum of $10,000, payable to the order of one John Nelder, on the 1st of March 1820. The plaintiffs below, in their petition, made title to the note through several mesne indorsements, the last of which was, that of the President, The issue was joined, and it appeared in evidence on the trial, that the note in question was discounted for the Planters’ Bank, by…
1Opinion of the CourtStoby, Justice
—The Bank of the United States brought an action in the district court for Louisiana district, against William Fleckner (the plaintiff in error), upon a promissory note of Fleckner, dated the 26th of March 1818, for the sum of $10,000, payable to one John Nelder, or order, on the 1st of March 1820, for value received; and the bank, in their declaration by petition, made title to the same note through several mesne indorsements, ;-':the last of which was that of the President, &c., of the Planters’ Bank of New Orleans, through their cashier, as agent. The answer of Fleckner sets up several…
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