Conner v. Allen

The facts upon which the decision of this cause rests are these: the defendant in error, E. C. Allen, held a note upon Conner, the plaintiff in error, for $ 1080, due the 1st of March, 1857. On the 2d of January, in that year — this note being endorsed in blank by Allen, the payee — was discounted by the LawrenceburgBank of Tennessee, and the proceeds, $>1017.79, paid to Allen, who from thence ceased to be the owner of the note. On the 26th of February, T. C. Ramsey, the Clerk and Teller of the Bank, by letter, in the name of William Si-monton, its Cashier, notified Conner that the Bank held…