Rhett v. Poe
Supreme Court of the United States
This case came up by writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of. South Carolina. The suit was brought in the court below, by Poe, the cashier of the bank, against Rhett as the endorser upon a note for $8000 under the following circumstances: Dixon Timberlake was'a merchant who, it appeared from the evidence, .had been for several years prior to 1837, in-the habit of going from New York to the south, during the cotton buying season, and then…
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This case came up by writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of. South Carolina. The suit was brought in the court below, by Poe, the cashier of the bank, against Rhett as the endorser upon a note for $8000 under the following circumstances: Dixon Timberlake was'a merchant who, it appeared from the evidence, .had been for several years prior to 1837, in-the habit of going from New York to the south, during the cotton buying season, and then returning to New York. In the winter of 1836-7, he was at Augusta, in Georgia, with large letters of credit from various…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Daniel
The instrument upon which this suit was instituted in the Circuit Court, was, as the aforegoing statement evinces, in form simply a common promissory note, signed by Benjamin R. Smith, made payable to William E. Haskell, endorsed by Haskell to Robert Barnwell Smith alias Robert Barnwell Rhett, and 'by this last individual to Robert F. Poe, cashier of the Bank of Augusta, the plaintiff in the action. Such being the nature of the instrument, and it appearing that the formalities of demand at its maturity, and notice to the endorsers have been regularly fulfilled by the holder, a question as to…
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