Elledge v. Straughn

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This was an action by petition and summons, brought in the name of Straughn, on a note for $250, payable to him. The defendants pleaded that by endorsement on the note Straughn had, on the 9th of March, 1839, assigned $164 25 thereof to Jesse Barnet, and that by a simij lar endorsement he had, on the 16th of December, 1839, assigned “the residue of the note, being $85 75,” to E. L. Shackleford, and makes profert of said endorsement. A demurrer to this plea having'been sustained and a judgment rendered for the plaintiff, the only question…