Robinson v. Wilkinson

Wilkinson brought suit in the Superior Court of Detroit upon a note for nine hundred dollars, made by Bobinson, and payable to the order of James N. B. Wilkinson. The note was not endorsed, and the plaintiff claimed a right to recover upon it by showing a’ verbal assignment of it by the payee to herself for value.

It is not pretended that such a suit could have been maintained at the common law, but reliance is placed upon the statute (Comp. L., § 5775), which provides that “ the assignee of any bond, note or other chose in action, not negotiable under existing laws, which has been or may be…