Waters v. Petrovic & Blanchard
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Western tilg. AFFBAL FROM THE COURT OF THE TENTH DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF NATCHITOCHES, THE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING. This is an action by one endorser against his two previous endorsers, on a note for $3000, dated the 6th April, 1838, payable to the order of P. Petrovic, 34 months after date, and which, was discounted in bank; protested for non-payment# and taken up by the plaintiff Under protest.
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Western tilg. AFFBAL FROM THE COURT OF THE TENTH DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF NATCHITOCHES, THE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING. This is an action by one endorser against his two previous endorsers, on a note for $3000, dated the 6th April, 1838, payable to the order of P. Petrovic, 34 months after date, and which, was discounted in bank; protested for non-payment# and taken up by the plaintiff Under protest. He now sues and prays judgment against his two previous .endorsers, as being liable to him. The defendants admitted their signatures, but averred thev .D J endorsed the note in blank before its…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
This is an action against two of the endorsers of a promis-sory note by another and subsequent endorser, who alleges, that he took it up after protest.
The defendants admit their signatures, but aver, that about a year previous to the date of the note they endorsed it in blank for the accommodation of the drawers, to enable them to raise, one thousand dollars for the use of the steamboat John Linton, of which one of them, T. W. Reed, was then captain. That the note was not dated, nor for any particular sum, but it was well understood, that it should be filled up for one thousand dollars,…
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