Lightner v. Will
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the District Court of Allegheny county. Joel W. Lightner against J. E. Will, and James Park & Co. against D. P. Ingersoll. The facts of each of these cases raised the same question. In the latter case, the plaintiffs gave the following evidence:— Pittsburgh, April 8, 1837. Four months after date I promise to pay to the order of Joseph Armorer, four hundred dollars, without defalcation, for value received. (Endorsed) (Signed) Orín Waters.
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ERROR to the District Court of Allegheny county. Joel W. Lightner against J. E. Will, and James Park & Co. against D. P. Ingersoll. The facts of each of these cases raised the same question. In the latter case, the plaintiffs gave the following evidence:— Pittsburgh, April 8, 1837. Four months after date I promise to pay to the order of Joseph Armorer, four hundred dollars, without defalcation, for value received. (Endorsed) (Signed) Orín Waters. Joseph Armorer, D. P. Ingersoll, Samuel Roseburgh, James Park & Co. “ Be it known, That on the 11th day of August 1837,1, Mathew B. Lowrie, notary…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
Both these cases turn upon the same point. The action in each is against the endorser of a negotiable note, dated at Pittsburgh; though the drawers, at the times of drawing the notes, as also at the times they became payable, resided some three or four miles from that place. The notes were not presented to the drawers in either case at maturity for payment; although no place is specified for payment therein, and the residence of the drawers would seem to have been known to the holders, or, at least, could have been easily ascertained by…
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