Hortsman v. Henshaw
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for Massachusetts. The whole case is set forth in the declaration and bill of exceptions, which were as follows.
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This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for Massachusetts. The whole case is set forth in the declaration and bill of exceptions, which were as follows. “John Hortsman, of London, in that part of the kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, alien to each and every of the United States of North America, and not a citizen of either or any of said States, Esquire, versus John Henshaw, William Ward, and Joseph W. Ward, of Boston, in said District, merchants and copartners, doing…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
delivered the opinion of the court..
The material facts in this case may be stated in a few words.
Fiske & Bradford, a mercantile firm in Boston, drew their bill of exchangé. upon Hortsman of London, payable at sixty days’ sight to the order of Fiske & Bridge, for six hundred and forty-two pounds-sterling. The drawers, or one of them, placed the bill in the hands of a broker, with the names of the payees indorsed upon it, to be negotiated; and it was sold to the de-. fendants in error bom fide and for full value. They transmitted it to their correspondent in London, and upon presentation it was…
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