Case ID: njl_3/html/0294-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By the Court.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HEADLY against VAN NESS.
    ON CERTIORARI.
    A due bill payable to one’s creditors, is not negotiable.
    
    The action below was brought on the following state of demand:
    William Headly, Dr. to Simon Van Ness, indorsee of William Taylor.
    To amount of account rendered, . $16.18
    Interest, 5.56
    $21.74
    Among the papers sent up by the justice, was a written acknowledgment, dated 26 Jan., 1805, made by William [*] Headly, that he had bought sundry articles, which were particularly enumerated, amounting to $16.18, of William Taylor, which he was to settle with his creditors; on the back of which, was signed blank, the name of William Taylor.
    
      
       S. P. South. 489.
      
    
   [531]

By the Court.

This is too loose a paper to be treated as a negotiablé instrument. The right of Van Ness, the plaintiff below, to maintain this action against Headly, no way appears by the record of the justice. The state of demand.is in itself absurd and unintelligible; nor will the paper admitted in evidence, help it out.

Judgment reversed.