Leftwitch v. Lecanu
Supreme Court of the United States
A statute of Louisiana* enacts “ that notaries shall keep a book, in which they shall transcribe all the protests by them made, with mention made of the notices which they shall ■have given to drawers and indorsers, &c.; which declaration, duly recorded under the signature of the notary public and two witnesses, shall be received as a legal proof of the notices.”
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A statute of Louisiana* enacts “ that notaries shall keep a book, in which they shall transcribe all the protests by them made, with mention made of the notices which they shall ■have given to drawers and indorsers, &c.; which declaration, duly recorded under the signature of the notary public and two witnesses, shall be received as a legal proof of the notices.” With this statute in force, Leeanu sued Leftwiteh and others in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana, as indorsers of a promissory note. The suit was in the form usual in Louisiana, that is to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
The only allegation of error in this record relates to a certificate of a notary public, that he had notified the in-dorsers of a promissory note of the dishonor of said note.
The bill of exceptions states that “ plaintiff’ offered in evidence an instrument in writing on the back of the protest, purporting to be a certificate of the notary, that he had notified the indorser of the note, which is hereunto annexed for reference as a part of this bill, to which certificate counsel for defendant objected,” &e. bio such paper is found annexed to the bill of exceptions, nor in any manner referred…
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