Rowland v. Rowe
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Civil Action against the defendant as endorser of a promissory note; brought to the Court of Common Pleas of New Haven County, and tried to the court, on a denial of the principal allegations, before Stoddard, J. The following facts were found by the court:— _ The note in suit was dated at East Haven, January 1st, 1880, was signed by George A. Hubbard, was for $300, payable at the Second National Bank of the city of New Haven six months from its date, and was endorsed by the…
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Civil Action against the defendant as endorser of a promissory note; brought to the Court of Common Pleas of New Haven County, and tried to the court, on a denial of the principal allegations, before Stoddard, J. The following facts were found by the court:— _ The note in suit was dated at East Haven, January 1st, 1880, was signed by George A. Hubbard, was for $300, payable at the Second National Bank of the city of New Haven six months from its date, and was endorsed by the defendant, to whose order it was made payable. Soon after it was executed Hubbard, the maker, brought it to the…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
It appears in this case that up to the day of the maturity of the note in question the plaintiff had neither knowledge nor reason for believing that the endorser had changed his residence. The note bore date at East Haven; there the endorser had lived for forty years, including the day upon which he made the endorsement, and this he placed *442in the hands of the maker of the note, presumably -with knowledge that he intended to sell it in the open note market of New Haven, and probably to a person who would have no other information as to the endorser’s residence than that furnished by the note…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Lambert v. GhiselinSupreme Court of the United States · 1850
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- Importers & Traders' National Bank v. ShawMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1887