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1 Lock. Rev. Cas. 49

Hall v. Newcomb

Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · decided 1799-07-01

The judgment in this case was affirmed, the Court of Errors holding with the Supreme Court, that the plaintiff was properly non suited in the court below. But as the cases of Herrick v. Carman, (12 J. R. 159,) and Tillman v. Wheeler, (17 id. 176,) are commented on and explained, and that of Nelson v. Dubois, (13 id. 175,) overruled by it, we have thought proper to call the attention of the reader to the case.

Decided 1799-07-01

¶1The Court of Errors also affirmed the non suit, on the ground that such an endorsement merely engaged the endorser upon the usual conditions of demand and notice, and that parol evidence was inadmissible to vary the legal effect of his undertaking, and that he could not be made liable to H. as guarantor or maker, but only as endorser.

¶2gQ” The ease of Nelson v. Dubois, overruled, as it seems to be, by this decision of the Court of Errors, was an action upon a promissory note, payable to bearer, and endorsed in blank, in which the Supreme Court held, that the holder may in such a case, or in the case of a note not negotiable, write over the name of the endorser a guaranty or promise to pay the note, so as to take the case out of the statute *50of frauds; and that this may he done at any time before or at the trial of the cause. (13 J. R. 175.)

¶3In that case, it was also held, that a declaration or a promise, (by parol,) mightbe supported by a promise in writing, if it comported with the promise stated.

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