Williams v. Putnam
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Assumpsit, upon a promissory note indorsed by the defendants. The declaration alleged the making of the note by one Little, November 18, 1839, at Littleton, N. H., to the order of the defendants, under their firm name of Truman Stevens & Co., for $500, payable at the Suffolk Bank in Boston, in nine months, and the indorsement and delivery of said note to the plaintiff.
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Assumpsit, upon a promissory note indorsed by the defendants. The declaration alleged the making of the note by one Little, November 18, 1839, at Littleton, N. H., to the order of the defendants, under their firm name of Truman Stevens & Co., for $500, payable at the Suffolk Bank in Boston, in nine months, and the indorsement and delivery of said note to the plaintiff. “ And the plaintiff, on the twenty-first day of August, A. D. 1840, when the note became payable, presented the same at the Suffolk Bank, in said Boston, and the same was not paid, but was protested ; of all which the said…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
It has become almost a trite remark, in the courts of the various states of this Union, that although, for certain purposes, the states form but one government, and are properly to be regarded as one entire nation, those-purposes are of limited character, and that beyond them, the states conduct their internal affairs as independent communities. Among the relations and subjects with reference to which they are to be regarded as foreign to each other, are those questions which arise as to the drawing, negotiation, presentment, &c., of bills of exchange and promissory notes. 9 N. H. Rep. 558,…
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