Black v. Ward

Ward was sued as endorser of a note made and endorsed in Michigan, but' payable in Canada, expressly in “ Canada currency.” The circuit court beld it was, upon its face, payable otherwise than in money, and not negotiable. This is the only important question before us.

*192There was some testimony given in the court below upon the meaning of the phrase in question, and the argument in this court has covered a very wide range, it being claimed bn the -one hand, that the note 'is payable only in paper, and on the other, that the word currency is used only to indicate that it is payable in Canadian,…