Nichols v. Fearson
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the circuit court of the United States for the district of Columbia, in the county of Washington. The plaintiff in error instituted a_ suit on a promissory note dated at Georgetown, October 22d, 1821, for the sum of one hundred and one dollars, payable to the order of S. and J. Fearson, the defendants, and by them indorsed.
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IN error to the circuit court of the United States for the district of Columbia, in the county of Washington. The plaintiff in error instituted a_ suit on a promissory note dated at Georgetown, October 22d, 1821, for the sum of one hundred and one dollars, payable to the order of S. and J. Fearson, the defendants, and by them indorsed. The evidence in the case showed, that- on the 26th of October. 1821 the defendants came into the store Of the plaintiff with the. note, and told the plaintiff théy had obtained the note from the drawer for goods they had sold him at their store, and asked the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Johnson
This was an action by the indorsee against the indorser of a promissory note, in which the plaintiff here was plaintiff in the court below. It comes up upon exceptions taken to certain 'instructions giyen at the instance of the defendant, and to the. refusal of other instructions prayed for by the plaintiff.
On the motion of the' defendants, the court instructed the jury, “that if they believed, from the evidence, that the plaintiff received the note in question from the defendants, with their indorsement upon it, and without any understanding that the defendants were not to be responsible…
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