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29 F. Cas. 684

Welsh v. Lindo

U.S. District Court

Decided July 15, 1808

U.S. District Court · decided 1808-07-15

Assumpsit against the defendant as in-dorser of a promissory note made by Ker-chival to Lindo, who assigned it to Welsh, ‘•without recourse,” who assigned it to Hodg-sett. offered no evidence but a transcript of a record of a suit between Hodgsett and Kerchival, upon the note described in the declaration, in which suit the defendant pleaded payment to Lin-do, and obtained a verdict on that issue.

Decided 1808-07-15

THE COURT(DUCKETT, Circuit Judge, absent)

¶1instructed tbe jury that the record is not evidence until the assignment from Lindo to the plaintiff be first proved otherwise than by the record. A juror was withdrawn by consent, and the cause continued at tbe costs of the plaintiff.

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