Hume v. Brown

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

George D. Brown holding anote on Samuel M’Meekin, for forty six dollars and seventy three cents, which was ¿[ue on the 22d of November, 1833, assigned it to David . . Hume, on the 30th of December, 1833, inpayment ola *449debt due from him to Hume, telling him, at the same time, to ask M’Meekin two or three times for the money, and if he did not pay it, to sue him, and if he did not. make the money, he himself would pay it. On the day of the assignment, or within two days after, Hume called on M’Meekin -for the money, when M’Meekin told him, “he…