Codwise v. Gleason
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut
THIS case was argued on a plea in abatement, at the last term; a resfiondeas ouster was ordered; and the case continued to this term, for trial on the merits^. The declaration having been already stated at length, it may be sufficient to refer to that statement,(a) without repeating it here ; but the case will be better understood by a statement of the following facts, in addition to those which appear on the declaration: Erastus Gay made a contract for a title to some…
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THIS case was argued on a plea in abatement, at the last term; a resfiondeas ouster was ordered; and the case continued to this term, for trial on the merits^. The declaration having been already stated at length, it may be sufficient to refer to that statement,(a) without repeating it here ; but the case will be better understood by a statement of the following facts, in addition to those which appear on the declaration: Erastus Gay made a contract for a title to some Georgia lands with Peleg Sanford and another person, according to the terms of which he was obliged t® give them a note for…
1Opinion of the CourtLivingston, J.
directed the jury, that as to the first point, though he had had doubts, they were almost entirely removed. If anote were forged, the endorsement would bind the man who made it .
*16The second point he declared not to have altered the decision of the case from what it would havebeen, if the were the only endorsees^ and the defendants the only persons through whose hands the note had passed, Gleason 1st Cowles gave the weight of their names to the world, and must be responsible to every man who trusts to the note relying on their credit, as every subsequent endorsee must be supposed to do, from…
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