Harbour v. Taylor

The defendant Foreman, has taken a devolutive appeal from a judgment rendered against him, as endorser of a promissory note, drawn to his order by H. P. Taylor, and made payable at the office of discount and deposit of the Branch of the Louisiana Bank at Baton Rouge. He urges, that the judg*33ment of the District Court is erroneous, as there is no evidence of the “presentment of the note, and demand of payment of it, at the place of payment, which are conditions precedent, indispensable to a recovery against the maker, and, a fortiori, in a suit against an endorser.” The notary states in his…