Rooker v. Daniels

Assumpsit by Booker against Daniels on a promissory note for the payment of 200 dollars. The note was dated July 2, 1850, payable to one Henry Rider, eighteen months after date, and by him, on the 29th of January, 1851, assigned to the plaintiff.

Plea, that on the 29th of January, 1851, and before notice of the assignment of the note, a suit in chancery was pending in the Knox Circuit Court, wherein one Hannah Rider was complainant and the said Hewry Rider, Allen B. Daniels, and others, were defendants, in which suit it was by the Court adjudged, amongst other things, that the money due by…