Andrews v. Pond
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district-of Alabama. The.plaintiff in error instituted a suit on.a bill of exchange, dated at New York on the 11th of.
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IN error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district-of Alabama. The.plaintiff in error instituted a suit on.a bill of exchange, dated at New York on the 11th of. March, 1837, drawn' by D. Carpenter on Sayre, Converse and Company, Mobile, Alabama, for $7287 78 jn,favour of the defendants, Pond, Converse, and .Company; payable and negotiable at the Bank of Mobile, sixty days after date.' The plaintiff iii error was a citizen of New York, a^d the drawers and endorsers of the bill were citizens of Alexandria, Alabama. The evidence in ;the Circuit Court proved that Lewis…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
delivered the opinion of the Court.—
This case comes before the Court upon a writ of error, directed to the judges of the Circuit Court for the ninth circuit and southern district of Alabama.
The action was brought by the-plaintiff as endorsee,, against the defendants .as endorsers of a bill of exchange in the following words:—
“Exchange for @7287T\V • New York, March 11, 1837.
■ “ Sixty days after' date of this first of exchange, second of same tenoitr and date unpaid, pay vo Messrs. Pond, Converse, and Wads-worth, or order, seven thousand-two hundred and eighty-seven TW dollars, negotiably and…
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