LENOX v. ROBERTS


15 U.S. 373 (1817)

2 Wheat. 373

LENOX et al. v. ROBERTS.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 15, 1817.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued by Mr. Swann, for the appellants, and by Mr. Lee, for the respondent.


Mr. Chief Justice MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the court.

The court will not give any opinion whether any action can be maintained at law upon any of the promissory notes in the record, by an assignee who does not claim the same by an endorsement upon the notes. For, in this case, there is no specific assignment of these notes; the only assignment is a general assignment, in trust, of all the property of the late bank of the United States, and, as the act of...

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