Jordan v. Garnett
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error t© the County Court of Pickens. THIS -action was commenced in the Court below, by the plaintiff in error, against the defendant in error, on his indorsement of a note to 'one Green S. S.tilwell, the note -having been executed on the 1st January, 1836, by one Rezin Ridgeway, for the payment to the plaintiff, -twelve months thereafter, of one thousand and'eighty dollars.
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Error t© the County Court of Pickens. THIS -action was commenced in the Court below, by the plaintiff in error, against the defendant in error, on his indorsement of a note to 'one Green S. S.tilwell, the note -having been executed on the 1st January, 1836, by one Rezin Ridgeway, for the payment to the plaintiff, -twelve months thereafter, of one thousand and'eighty dollars. The declaration, which consists of seven counts,- charges the transaction variously. ■ T.be first count charges the defendant as maker of a ..promi-sory-note, for.'the payment of one thousand and eighty dollars.-. The…
1Opinion of the CourtOrmond, J.
The questions of law, arising on the pleadings and -evidence ii> t'his- case must' be determined by the character of the contract on- which-the action is founded — the indorsement of the defendant.
The facts of the-case are, that Stil well, for whose use this suit is brought, sold'to1 the defendant six "slaves, and received from him- in part payment a note, for one thousand and eighty dollars,- made by> one Ridgeway, to the plaintiff. The’ rióte was not due-, at'the time, nor indorsed by the plaintiff*-but-was at the time of tire transfer indorsed by the defendant, in-blank. What was the…
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