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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 3,417.
    CROPPER v. NELSON.
    [3 Wash. C. C. 125.]
    
    Circuit Court, D. Pennsylvania.
    Oct. Term, 1811.
    In’tf.kested Witness.
    1. In an action on a hill of exchange, brought by the endorsee of the second endorser, against the payee, who had endorsed the bill - to the plaintiff; the plaintiff’s endorser cannot be a witness to prove that the bill belongs to him.
    2. Exchange is to be settled at the rate prevailing at the time of the verdict.
    [Cited in Weed v. Miller, Case No. 17,346.]
    Action on a bill against the payee, who en•dorsed it to one B., in blank, who endorsed it -in full to the plaintiff. The defendant offer■ed B., to prove that he is the real owner of ■this bill, in order to show a want of jurisdiction in the court; B. being a citizen of this state.
    
      
       [Originally published from the MSS. of Hon. Bushrod Washington, Associate Justice of tho Supreme Court of the United States, under the supervision of Richard Peters, Jr., Esq.]
    
   BY THE COURT.

The witness cannot be admitted to swear himself into an interest It wotild be a great temptation to perjury to admit him.

THE COURT directed the jury to settle the ■exchange, (this being a sterling bill,) as of this day, which is from 18 to 20 per cent below par.