Powell v. . Guy

The only question upon the trial was whether the plaintiff had a right to recover interest according to the face of the note, or whether it was to be computed from the death of the maker, and upon that the following facts were stated in the form of a case agreed:

Bathsheba Farmer, on 21 January, 1817, executed the note to her son, the intestate of the plaintiff, payable one day after date, on which was the following endorsement: "This note is not to be collected until after the death of the maker." His Honor, Judge Pearson, ruled that interest should be computed from the death of the maker,…