Case ID: dc_2/html/0530-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Bank of the Metropolis v. R. Brent’s Executors.
    If a note be payable at a certain bank, and payment be there demanded, it is not necessary to make a personal demand npon the maker, in order to charge the indorser.
    Assumpsit, against the executors of the indorser of George A. Carroll’s note for $1100. After verdict for the plaintiffs, asstated in 1 Peters, 89, the defendants moved in arrest of judgment because it did not appear by the declaration that demand had been made upon the maker.
    The declaration stated that the note was negotiable at the Bank of the Metropolis, and that it was demanded at that bank “ where it was payable.”
   The Court

(Thruston, J., absent,)

overruled the motion, and judgment was rendered for the plaintiffs, which was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States. 1 Peters, 89.