RHETT v. POE


43 U.S. 457 (____)

2 How. 457

ROBERT BARNWELL RHETT, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. ROBERT F. POE, CASHIER OF THE BANK OF AUGUSTA, DEFENDANT.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Coxe and Legare, (attorney-general,) for the plaintiff in error. Wilde and Hunt, for the defendant.


Mr. Justice DANIEL delivered the opinion of the court.

The instrument upon which this suit was instituted in the Circuit Court, was, as the aforegoing statement evinces, in form simply a common promissory note, signed by Benjamin R. Smith, made payable to William E. Haskell, endorsed by Haskell to Robert Barnwell Smith alias Robert Barnwell Rhett, and by this last individual to Robert F. Poe, cashier of the Bank of Augusta...

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