Cope v. Daniel

The Chief Justice

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

On the 5th of July, 1832, Henry Daniel gave his promissory note to Samuel P. Carson, for fifteen hundred dollars, payable at the United States’ Bank at Philadelphia, six months after the date thereof — on which the name of the payee, and that, also, of Warren R. Davis were endorsed. After the death of Davis, Herman Cope, the holder, wrote above Carson’s name an assignment to Davis, and over the name of Davis, an assignment to himself, Cope.

To a petition and summons brought on the note, in the name of Cope, as assignee, Daniel pleaded the…