Legal Opinion
James Trabue & Co. v. R. H. Short & Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided March 15, 1866PublishedCited by 1 opinion
APPEAL from the Second District Court of New Orleans,
1Opinion of the CourtHoweeb, J.
This is an action -upon a note, bearing eight per cent, interest, and made in Kentucky to the order of defendants, payable at .their office in New Orleans, and assigned by them in Kentucky to Oayce & Hopkins, residing there, and by the latter to plaintiffs, rfesiding also in .Kentucky. The note was duly protested at maturity and notices of -dishonor given. On the trial below judgment was rendered against de.fendants, and they have appealed.
*258The defence is, that the contract of endorsement having been made in Kentucky, the liability of defendants, as endorsers, is governed by the law of that…
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- Slacum v. PomerySupreme Court of the United States · 1810
- Hunt v. StandartIndiana Supreme Court · 1860
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