Bower v. Hastings
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error, to the Common Pleas of Tioga county. This was an action of assumpsit by H. S. Hastings and George McNitt against John Bower, as endorsees of a promissory note, of which the following is a copy:— “ $1500. White Deer Yalley, November 11, 1852. “ Ninety days from date I promise to pay to the order of S. T. McCormick, at the Bank of Danville, fifteen hundred dollars, without defalcation, for value received. • “John Bower. “ Credit the drawer, S. T. McCormick.
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Error, to the Common Pleas of Tioga county. This was an action of assumpsit by H. S. Hastings and George McNitt against John Bower, as endorsees of a promissory note, of which the following is a copy:— “ $1500. White Deer Yalley, November 11, 1852. “ Ninety days from date I promise to pay to the order of S. T. McCormick, at the Bank of Danville, fifteen hundred dollars, without defalcation, for value received. • “John Bower. “ Credit the drawer, S. T. McCormick. Endorsed, “ S. T. McCormick.” On the trial, the defendant proved by a witness, that he had seen this note, in the fall of 1855, in…
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Read, J.
This was a suit brought on the 29th April 1856, by the defendants in error against the plaintiff in error, on a promissory note in these words:—
“ «§1500. White Deer Valley, November 11, 1852. Ninety days from date, I promise to pay to the order of S. T. McCormick, at the Bank of Danville, fifteen hundred dollars, without defalcation, for value received.
“ John Bower. ,
“ Credit the drawer, S. T. McCormick.
Endorsed, “S. T. McCormick.”
The plaintiffs proved the note and rested.
The defendant then proved by a witness that he had seen the note in the…
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