McLean v. Bryer

The plaintiff sues as holder of two notes, one for the sum of $200, payable on demand to Thomas B. Cory, dated May 1, 1899; the second for the sum of $400, payable to said Cory on demand with interest, dated July 24, 1899.

These notes were transferred for value by indorsement to the plaintiff eighteen and sixteen months, respectively, after their issue, and on each the defendant, Mrs. Bryer, wife of the maker, signed her name on the back before delivery of the notes to the payee.

The defence was that, as the notes were taken by the plaintiff so long after their issue, he took them as notes…