DAVIS v. BROWN


94 U.S. 423 (1876)

DAVIS v. BROWN.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Argued by Mr. H.G. Miller for the plaintiff in error, and submitted by Mr. U.P. Smith and Mr. Stephen Sibley for the defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE FIELD delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action against the defendants, as second indorsers upon ten promissory notes of one McOmber, made at Saratoga Springs, in the State of New York, in June, 1870, each for $500, and payable to his order in from thirty-two to forty-one months after date.

The defence set up to defeat the action was that the notes in suit were transferred in June, 1871, with other notes of the same party of like amount...

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