Bennett v. Herring
Supreme Court of Florida
Error to Franklin County. This cause was tried at Spring Term, 1846, of Franklin Circuit Court, Judge Douglas presiding. Assumpsit by Plaintiff, as endorsee of the following promissory note: $981 97. “ New-York, August 15,1886. “ Fifteen months after date, I promise to pay to the order of Messrs. Young & Van Eps, at the Commercial Bank at Apalachicola, nine hundred and eighty-one 97-100 dollars', value received.
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Error to Franklin County. This cause was tried at Spring Term, 1846, of Franklin Circuit Court, Judge Douglas presiding. Assumpsit by Plaintiff, as endorsee of the following promissory note: $981 97. “ New-York, August 15,1886. “ Fifteen months after date, I promise to pay to the order of Messrs. Young & Van Eps, at the Commercial Bank at Apalachicola, nine hundred and eighty-one 97-100 dollars', value received. Due Nov. 15,1837. . (Signed), A. T.'BENNETT.’" (Endorsed), “ Edward Young & Van Eps.” Plea — Statute of Limitations. Replication — That at the time the said several causes of action…
1Opinion of the Court
BaltzeMi, J.,
delivered the following opinion:
This was a suit instituted by Herring against Bennett as endorsee of a promissory note in the following words :
“ New-York, August 15, 1836.
Fifteen months after date, I promise to pay to the order of Messrs., 'Young & Yan Eps, at the Commercial Bank at Apalachicola, $981., ■97, value received. • A. T. BENNETT.”
(Endorsed), “ Edward Young & Van Eps.”
There were various pleas in the Court below, but the defence principally relied upon was the statute of limitations, the questions *382arising upon which, form the principal subject for the Consideration of…
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