Chalmers, Jones & Co. v. M'Murdo
Supreme Court of Virginia
THE Appellee exhibited his Bill on the 29th May 1811, in the Supreme Court of Chancery for the Richmond District, against the Appellants, with Chepmel, La Serre & Co. John Bell, surviving partner of John and William Bell, and Conway and Fortescue Whittle, defendants ; setting forth, that the defendants, Conway and Fortescue Whittle, in payment of a Debt due to the plaintiff, endorsed to him two notes negotiable at the Office of Discount and Deposit of the Rank of Virginia at…
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THE Appellee exhibited his Bill on the 29th May 1811, in the Supreme Court of Chancery for the Richmond District, against the Appellants, with Chepmel, La Serre & Co. John Bell, surviving partner of John and William Bell, and Conway and Fortescue Whittle, defendants ; setting forth, that the defendants, Conway and Fortescue Whittle, in payment of a Debt due to the plaintiff, endorsed to him two notes negotiable at the Office of Discount and Deposit of the Rank of Virginia at Petersburg, one for $1500, the other for $1063,55, executed by the defendants Chepmel, La Serre & Co., and endorséd by…
1Opinion of the Court
November 21th, 1816,
Judge Brooke
pronounced the Court’s
opinion :
The Court, admitting that a second endorser may, by agreement, become a first endorser in point of contract, which seems to have been relied on by the Chancellor, is of opinion that the Appellants Chalmers, Jones and Co. do not appear to have placed themselves in that situation. On the contrary, it is admitted by John Bell the surviving partner of John and William Bell, in his answer, that they were apprized, by Chepmel, La Serre and Co., that the Appellants refused to endorse the notes in question, unless there was some previous…
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