State Trading Corp. v. Jordan

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

This is an action in assumpsit by the indorsee holder of a trade acceptance against the acceptor: Defendant, Harry J. Jordan, Jr., filed an affidavit of defense raising questions of law which were decided in his favor by the court below. Thereafter judgment was entered for defendant when plaintiff declined to avail itself of the opportunity afforded it "to amend its statement of claim so as to set forth the entire contractual relations, if any, existing by and between” the drawer payee and the defendant acceptor.

Plaintiff relied upon the following averments as…