M'Connell v. Morrison

Opinion of the Court.

ON the 9th of May 1817, M’Connell executed a note to Allen Davis, for five hundred and forty-two dollars and ninety-five cents, negotiable and payable, two years after date, at the office of discount and deposit of the Bank of the United States in Lexington. On the 14th of May 1819, Morrison, as the assignee of Davis, to whom the note was made payable, brought suit on the note against M’Connell, in the Fayette circuit court. M’Connell pleaded three pleas. By the first, he says the plaintiff, Morrison, his action ought not to have and maintain, because, he says, that the…