Bond v. Storrs
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action against the defendant, as the maker of a promissory note. The declaration alleged, That the defendant, as surety, and John A. Tracy, as principal, in and by a certain writing or note, under their hands, by them well executed, dated the 27th day of January, 1836, promised the plaintiff, jointly and severally, to pay to him, or order, for value received, the sum of 794 dollars, at the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie, in Cleaveland, Ohio, in three years from the…
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This was an action against the defendant, as the maker of a promissory note. The declaration alleged, That the defendant, as surety, and John A. Tracy, as principal, in and by a certain writing or note, under their hands, by them well executed, dated the 27th day of January, 1836, promised the plaintiff, jointly and severally, to pay to him, or order, for value received, the sum of 794 dollars, at the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie, in Cleaveland, Ohio, in three years from the date of said note. The cause was tried, on the general issue, at Hartford, January term, 1840, before Williams, Ch. J.…
1Opinion of the CourtChurch, J.
The note upon which this action is brought, was executed by the defendant and John A. Tracy, and made payable to the plaintiff, or order, three years from its date, at the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie, at Cleaveland, endorsed by the payee in blank, and endorsed in full, by Henry Seymour, cashier, to R. Chapman, Esq. The action is prosecuted by Bond, the payee, and in his name, notwithstanding said endorsements. On the trial of the cause to the jury, the plaintiff struck out all the endorsements ; and to this the defendant objected. The defendant claimed, then, as he does now, that as Bond,…
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