Columbia Finance & Trust Co. v. Purcell

HOLLAND, District Judge.

This note was dated and delivered in Kentucky, and is, as a result, a Kentucky contract. Wharton’s Conflict of Laws (3d Ed.) § 447a. The indorsement, however, of Yarnall was made in Philadelphia, and the law of Pennsylvania governs as to the necessity of showing the plaintiffs exhausted the maker’s resources before proceeding against the indorsers; also the necessity of demand and protest is to be determined by the law of the place where the note was indorsed. Wharton’s Conflict of Law (3d Ed.) §§ 452f, 452b. In Pennsylvania, an irregular indorser, even if he be…