Burke v. McKay
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district of Mississippi. The suit was brought in the court below by the endorsee against the endorser of the following promissory note:— $2800. Clinton, Miss., January 20th, 1837. On' the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty, we, or. either of us, promise to pay Robert Mathews, or order, twenty-eight hundred dollars, for value received. R. E. Stratton, Saml.
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This case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district of Mississippi. The suit was brought in the court below by the endorsee against the endorser of the following promissory note:— $2800. Clinton, Miss., January 20th, 1837. On' the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty, we, or. either of us, promise to pay Robert Mathews, or order, twenty-eight hundred dollars, for value received. R. E. Stratton, Saml. W. Dickson, B. Garland.- The note was endorsed thus: I assign the within note to Robert McKay, and hold myself responsible…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
This is a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the district of Mississippi. The plaintiff in error brought' an action of assumpsit in that court, against the defendant in error, as endorsee upon a promissory 'note dated at Clinton, Mississippi; January 20, 1837, whereby R. E. Stratton, Samuel W. Dickson, and B. Garland, or either of them, on the first day of January, 1840, promised to pay Robert Mathews or order, $2800'' for value received. 'The note .was endorsed by Mathews .’as follows, “ I assign tire within note to Robert McKay, and hold myself responsible for the same, .-waiving notice…
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