Protection Insurance v. Bill
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit on the following note: “ $1,075. Hartford, August 14th, 1854. For value received, I, Henry Bill, promise to pay to the Protection Insurance Company, or their order, my second installment on forty-three shares of the stock of said company, being ten hundred and seventy-five dollars, and the same shall be paid in whole, or from time to time in part, as the same shall >8 required, within thirty days after demanded, or upon a notification of thirty days in any…
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Assumpsit on the following note: “ $1,075. Hartford, August 14th, 1854. For value received, I, Henry Bill, promise to pay to the Protection Insurance Company, or their order, my second installment on forty-three shares of the stock of said company, being ten hundred and seventy-five dollars, and the same shall be paid in whole, or from time to time in part, as the same shall >8 required, within thirty days after demanded, or upon a notification of thirty days in any newspaper printed in Hartford. •Henry Bill.” The note was indorsed as follows: “ Protection .Insurance Company, by Wm. Connor,…
1Opinion of the CourtSanford, J.
The relevancy and admissibility of the evidence introduced by the defendant to prove the indorsement of the instrument on which this suit is founded, depend entirely upon the character of that instrument, whether it is a negotiable promissory note, or a mere unassignable agreement between the original parties to it, as the plaintiffs claim. We think it a negotiable promissory note, and therefore that the evidence was properly received.
By this instrument the defendant promises to pay to the Protection Insurance Company or order, more than thirty-five dollars, and in money only; and our statute…
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