Robinson v. Smith

This case has been argued very fully and learnedly. Several interesting questions are discussed, which we do not consider, in the view we have taken of the case, as necessary to a decision.

J. A. Sutter owed Bobinson a considerable sum of money, and gave Bobinson an order on one Fowler, Sutter’s agent, to turn .out to him, Bobinson, security for the debt, in the shape of such promissory notes belonging to Sutter, in Fowler’s hands—there being a large number—as Bobinson might select. Fowler assigned to Bobinson the note sued on, being a note for three thousand dollars, dated May 27, 1850, due…