Legal Opinion
Downing v. Backenstoes
New York Supreme Court
Decided August 15, 1805PublishedCited by 7 opinions
ASSUMPSIT by the payee of a promissory note, without words of negotiability, in which the plaintiff declared, as on a note within the statute ; and this was the only count in the declaration. , confessed, that if the case were to be determined on the English decisions, it . ... would be against him, but if it were res integra m this court, he had much to say.
1Per curiam
The very point was settled in Green v. Long, April term, 1798, in conformity to the adjudications in Westminster-Hall. The plaintiff must have judgment.
2Cited by7 opinions
- Seymour & Bouck v. Van SlyckNew York Supreme Court · 1832
- Carnwright v. . GrayNew York Court of Appeals · 1891
- Leidy v. TammanySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1840
- Carnright v. GrayNew York Supreme Court · 1890
- Backus v. DanforthSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1834
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