Dorsey v. Hadlock

— This was a bill im chancery, filed by the plaintiff in error as the second indorsee of a promissory note, to recover a balance due upon it from Hadlock and Wood-worth the first indorsers. The bill states that on the 3d of April, 1837, Stephenson and Acheson made their promissory *114note for the sum of 1,480 dollars and 7 cents, payable six months after date to HadbcJc and Woodworth; that Hadlock and Woodworth indorsed it on the 29th of May, 1837, to Greenbury Dorsey, and the latter on the same day indorsed it to the complainant; that on the 9th of October, 1837, the note being unpaid, the…