Wilkins v. Gillis & Ferguson

This is a suit against the endorsers of a promissory note, in which the main question presented for our decision is, whether or not the words, “protest waived,” dispense with demand and notice, and convert a conditional into an absolute obligation on the part of the endorsers?

It is conceded that by the jurisprudence of this State, for more than twenty years, such a waiver does not dispense with notice to the endorser; but plaintiff’s counsel contend that our jurisprudence on this point is erroneous, not founded on reason, and not in accord with that in other States and countries, and they…