Leidy v. Tammany
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Centre county. This was an action of assumpsit by George Leidy, endorsee of' J. M. Benner and Philip Benner, who were endorsees of Miles & Kephart against Henry F. Tammany, founded upon the following note: $600 Ten days after date I promise to pay H. F. Tammany, six hundred dollars, for value received. Miles & Kephart. May 31, 1835. Pr. Wjt. W. Miles.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Centre county. This was an action of assumpsit by George Leidy, endorsee of' J. M. Benner and Philip Benner, who were endorsees of Miles & Kephart against Henry F. Tammany, founded upon the following note: $600 Ten days after date I promise to pay H. F. Tammany, six hundred dollars, for value received. Miles & Kephart. May 31, 1835. Pr. Wjt. W. Miles. After this note became due and remained unpaid, an interview took place between Leidy, Benner and Tammany, in which Tammany proposed to give the note to Leidy; and, to induce him to take it, wrote his name upon it.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
This action was brought in the common pleas of Centre county, by George Leidy, as the endorsee of a promissory note, against Henry F. Tammany, the payee and endorser of it. The note was dated on the 31st of May 1835, and drawn by Miles & •Kephart, for six hundred dollars, payable, ten days after its date, to Tammany for value received, without any words of negotiability *355being inserted in it. The plaintiff filed a declaration, containing five counts; the first two against the defendant as endorser of the note: the first count alleging that…
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