Laflin v. Pomeroy
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of assumpsit against the defendant as a party liable on a promissory note. There were six counts in the declaration. In the first, the plaintiffs declared, That the defendant, in and by a certain writing or note, under his hand, by him well executed, dated the 1st day of November, 1833, promised the plaintiffs, to pay to them, or order, for value received, the sum of 374 dollars, 60 cents, at the Fulton Bank in New- York, six months after date.
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This was an action of assumpsit against the defendant as a party liable on a promissory note. There were six counts in the declaration. In the first, the plaintiffs declared, That the defendant, in and by a certain writing or note, under his hand, by him well executed, dated the 1st day of November, 1833, promised the plaintiffs, to pay to them, or order, for value received, the sum of 374 dollars, 60 cents, at the Fulton Bank in New- York, six months after date. In the second count, it was alleged, that the note was executed, by the defendant, jointly and severally with one Alfred Davis. The…
1Opinion of the CourtHuntington, J.
We have, at the present term, in the case of Perkins v. Catlin, ante, p. 213., disposed of several of the questions presented by this .record. At the trial, the note, when offered in evidence, appeared to have been indorsed by the plaintiffs, and C. Burrall, cashr.; but these indorsements had been erased, and it was proved, that the defendant indorsed the note, in blank, previous to the indorsements of the plaintiffs and Burrall. Under these circumstances, the indorsement was, prima facie, a contract on the part of the defendant, that the note was due and payable according to its tenor, that…
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