Sharpe v. Bellis
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Philadelphia: No. 232, to January Term 1869. This was a foreign attachment by Richard Sharpe and others, trading as Sharpe, Weiss & Co., against Garrett J. Beilis. The writ was issued December 13th 1867. The plaintiffs declared against the defendant as endorser of a note dated March 19th 1867, at 60 days, drawn to his order by G. S. Burroughs, treasurer, for $2039.06. The defendant was president of the Port Richmond Pottery Company.
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Error to the District Court of Philadelphia: No. 232, to January Term 1869. This was a foreign attachment by Richard Sharpe and others, trading as Sharpe, Weiss & Co., against Garrett J. Beilis. The writ was issued December 13th 1867. The plaintiffs declared against the defendant as endorser of a note dated March 19th 1867, at 60 days, drawn to his order by G. S. Burroughs, treasurer, for $2039.06. The defendant was president of the Port Richmond Pottery Company. The plaintiffs gave in evidence the deposition of Henry J. Martindale. He testified, that he acted as salesman of the Pottery…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, March 1st 1869, by
Thompson, C. J.
If Sharpe, Weiss & Co. had been entire strangers to the defendant Beilis and to the fact of his connection with the “ Port Richmond Pottery Company,” as president, it could hardly be contended, we think, that the abbreviation “Pres’t,” after his name, could, in the absence of anything on the face of the note to indicate his possession of it in a representative character, be regarded as a restrictive endorsement.
The promise contained in it to him as payee, was personal and there was no designation of a company of which he…
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