Borden v. Clark

Cheistiancy, Ch. J.

This was an action brought by Clark, as endorsee, against-Borden, as tbe maker of a promissory note. The note was' *411made payable to the order of one French, who sold and endorsed it to the plaintiff, before maturity, the endorsement being “without recourse.”

The note being admitted and read in evidence, the plaintiff rested.

The defendant then proposed to show ■ in defense, in pursuance of a notice under the general issue, that the note was given for the purchase by him from French, the payee, of an interest in a patent-right, called the “Universal Seed Sower,” which French…