Sone v. Palmer
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Moniteau Circuit Court. This was an action commenced before a justice of the peace on a promissory note for one hundred and fifty dollars, dated October 5, 1855. At the trial the plaintiff read in evidence the note and rested. The defendant then offered to read the deposition of one William E. Hall, taken in Washington city.
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Error to Moniteau Circuit Court. This was an action commenced before a justice of the peace on a promissory note for one hundred and fifty dollars, dated October 5, 1855. At the trial the plaintiff read in evidence the note and rested. The defendant then offered to read the deposition of one William E. Hall, taken in Washington city. In this deposition Hall stated that he was then a clerk in the United States patent office; that his business in the office was chiefly to make searches and examinations in relation to assignments and other papers recorded and on file in said office; that he had…
1Opinion of the CourtRichaRDSON, Judge
There is nothing in the record that discloses the consideration of the note sued upon ; but it is conceded by the counsel that it was executed in consideration of an assignment, by the plaintiff to the defendant, of the right under the patent to Moses D. Wells for his seed planter for a specified district in this state. The defendant, erroneously assuming thp law to be that the plaintiff had no vendible interest in the patent because he had failed to have the assignment to him recorded in the patent office at Washington, rested his defence upon simply proving that there was no record in the…
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