Mulholland & Bros. v. Samuels
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 13 — PETITION— APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. CITED Myers’s Supplement, 354, Act of January 16,1864. Revised Statutes, 1 Stanton, 274-5. 7 Bush, 89, Todd v. Edwards. CITED Myers’s Supplement, 354, Act of January 16,1864. Byles on Bills, 421, 424, et seq. 1 Metcalfe, 658, Bondurant v. Everett. 1 Parsons on Contracts, 234.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE LINDSAY
delivered the opinion of the court.
Section 3 of the act of January 16, 1864 (Myers’s Supplement, 354), regulating the duties of notaries public, requires such officers, upon protesting for non-acceptance or non-pay*64ment any bill of exchange, check, or promissory note placed upon the footing of a bill of exchange, “to give or send notice of the dishonor of such paper to such of the parties thereto as are required by law to be notified to fix their liability; and when the residence of any of such parties is unknown to the notary public he shall send the notices to the holder of such…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Todd v. Edwards & Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1869