Fallis v. Griffith

BY THE COURT.

The act of assembly of the 25th February, 1820, 29 O. L. 217, makes a notefor money payable to any person or to *bearer, negotiable by endorsement, so as to vest the property [304 in it in the endorsee, and confers upon him power to sue it in his own name. The case in 2 O. 227, and the later case in 3 O. 49, were upon notes payable in cattle or goods, which, not being payable in money, were held not within the statute. In suits upon notes which are not negotiable, or which have been transferred by delivery, without endorsement, the holder is required to show how he became…