...some cases, however, a defendant may be estopped from saying that there was no partnership. Thus, in an action by the indorsee against the acceptor of a bill of exchange, purporting to be drawn by a firm consisting of several persons, if the declaration aver that...

...HUTCHINSON. AT Nis: PRITTS, CORAM LORD ELLENROROUGH, CJ, Jm.r 7, 1809. [Reported in 2 Campbell, 211.] Tins was an action by the indorsee against the acceptor of a bill of exchange. The Attorney- General, in opening the plaintiffs case, stated that he should not be able...

...^/.^fjt/JL'e IH THB COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 2, 1859. [Reported in 7 Common Bench Reports, New Series, 282.] was an action by the indorsee against the acceptor of a bill ct I 'he declaration stated that one Thomas Burton, on the 17th of December, 1858, by his bill of exchange,...

...defendant cannot avail himself of any such defense." In the case of Thomas v. Newton, 2 Car. & P. 606, an action by the indorsee against the acceptor of a bill of exchange — defense, that the bill was accepted for stock-jobbing differences, and no consideration...

...upon federal law. For example, in Swift v. Tyson, 1 decided by the federal Supreme Court in 1842, in an action by the indorsee against the acceptor of a bill of exchange, the question was whether a pre-existing debt was a valuable consideration for an indorsement...

...the same opinion. Postea to the plaintiff. 1790. MEAD v. YOUNG. ^!!ll 8 . (4 TE 28-33.) L 281 LJ In an action by the indorsee against the acceptor of a bill of exchange, drawn payable to " A. or order," it is competent to the defendant to give evidence that the...

...also Essex Co. v. Edmands, 12 Grav, 273. (u) Mead ». Young, 4 TR 28. In this case it was held that in an action by the indorsee against the acceptor of a bill of exchange, drawn payable to " A, or order," it is competent for the defendant to five in evidence that...

...4 Price 300. 4. Harried Women. — In Smith .-. Marsack,6 CB 486, 60 ECL 486, it was held that, in an action by the indorsee against the acceptor of a bill of exchange made payable to the order of the drawer, it is no answer that the drawer had no capacity to...

...this is a defence which was available under the plea of non assumpsit. In Calrert v. Baker (4), which was an action by the indorsee against the acceptor of a bill of exchange, it was held to be a good defence under a plea " that the defendant did not accept the bill...

...company, sue on it in his own name, and declare on it as Jiaving been indorsed to him by the drawer. This was an action by the indorsee against the acceptor of a bill of exchange. Plea (infer alia), a traverse of the indorsement by the drawer to the plaintiff. The cause...