Corbin v. Planters National Bank
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of corporation court of Danville, in an action wherein the Planters National Bank of Richmond was plaintiff, and T. J. Corbin was defendant. On the 13th of July, 1887, one S. F. Cobbs, in the city of New York, executed his promissory note for $3,000, payable ninety days after date, to his own order, at his office, 48 Broad street, in that city. It was admitted that by the laws of New York this note was negotiable.
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Error to judgment of corporation court of Danville, in an action wherein the Planters National Bank of Richmond was plaintiff, and T. J. Corbin was defendant. On the 13th of July, 1887, one S. F. Cobbs, in the city of New York, executed his promissory note for $3,000, payable ninety days after date, to his own order, at his office, 48 Broad street, in that city. It was admitted that by the laws of New York this note was negotiable. It did not appear, however, that by those laws it was protestable. After being indorsed by Cobb, Corbin, and one T. S. Flournoy, Jr., it was discounted for the…
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.
(after stating the case), delivered the opinion of the court.
The case presents several important questions of law, but their solution is free from difficulty.
The defendant, in support of the special plea, relies upon Beazley v. Simms, 81 Va., 644. But that case is not in point. The rule, moreover, announced in that case has been changed by the new Code. That was an action against two joint obligors, in which process was served on one of the defendants only, and there was a judgment against that one, and a discontinuance as to the other. And in a subsequent action against both, it was…
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