Campbell v. Nichols & Tompkins
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On verdict for plaintiff, and points reserved by the court. This was a suit on a promissory note drawn in Newark, in this state, by the defendants, payable to their own order at the Newark City National Bank, and endorsed by them. After its execution, it was delivered in Newark to a Mr. Havell, to procure the money on it for the defendants.
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On verdict for plaintiff, and points reserved by the court. This was a suit on a promissory note drawn in Newark, in this state, by the defendants, payable to their own order at the Newark City National Bank, and endorsed by them. After its execution, it was delivered in Newark to a Mr. Havell, to procure the money on it for the defendants. Havell took it to New York, and gave it to one Gaulidet, a note broker, to be disposed of, and on returning to Newark he informed one of the defendants of the disposition which he had made of the note. Gaulidet sold the note to a Mr. Kirkland, at a…
1Opinion of the Court
Beasley, Chief Justice.
The note which forms the subject of this controversy, was put into writing and was-*83signed in this state, but it was passed away and came first into legal existence in the State of New York; in contemplation of law, therefore, it was made in this latter jurisdiction. But although thus made in New York it was, by its terms, payable in New Jersey, and consequently, in the absence of an expression of a different intention, is to be regulated, with respect to the law of interest, by the statutes of the latter state. In his commentaries on the Conflict of Laws, § 291, Judge…
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