Slacum v. Pomery
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the circuit court for the district of Columbia, sitting in Alexandria, in an action of debt, (under the law of Virginia,) brought by Pomery against Slacum, as endorsor of a bill of exchange, dated the 6th of August, 1807, drawn in the island of Barbadoes, by Charles Cadogan, a merchant residing there, at 60 days’ sight, upon Barton, Irlam & Higginson, at Liverpool, in England, for 138/. 17s. 9d. sterling, payable to Slacum or order, who endorsed Alexandria, in the…
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ERROR to the circuit court for the district of Columbia, sitting in Alexandria, in an action of debt, (under the law of Virginia,) brought by Pomery against Slacum, as endorsor of a bill of exchange, dated the 6th of August, 1807, drawn in the island of Barbadoes, by Charles Cadogan, a merchant residing there, at 60 days’ sight, upon Barton, Irlam & Higginson, at Liverpool, in England, for 138/. 17s. 9d. sterling, payable to Slacum or order, who endorsed Alexandria, in the district of Columbia, to the plaintiff. The declaration was “ of a plea that he render unto him one hundred and…
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.
delivered the opinion of the court as follows, viz.
Upon a critical examination of the act of assembly oh which this action is founded, the court is of opinion that jt is rightly brought'. Although the drawer of the bill was not liable to the damages of Virginia, the endorsor is feubject.to them, he having endorsed the bill in Alexandria. The words of the act are, that where a bill of exchange 'shail-.be protested, “ the drawer or endorsor shall be subject to 15 per- cent. damages thereof.” The third section giyes an action of debt “ against the drawers or endorsors jointly, or…
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