Italo-Petroleum Corporation of America v. Hannigan

Layton, C. J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

The first question for decision is whether the plaintiff, under the assignment of the notes sued on, was entitled to maintain the action in his own name; and, preliminarily it is to be said that the plaintiff is not an innocent holder for value; nor did the notes pass to him by endorsement under Section 31 of the Negotiable Instruments Law (Sec. 3155, Rev. Code 1935) for the reason that the assignments were not written on the instruments nor upon a paper attached thereto.

The court below, adopting the reasoning in the case of Levy v. Levy, 78…