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Case No. 941.
    BANK OF THE UNITED STATES v. WATTERSTON.
    [4 Cranch, C. C. 445.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    March Term, 1834.
    Negotiable Instruments — Notice of Dishonor —Mistake in Date of Note.
    A mistake in [the recital of] the date of the note will not invalidate the notice given to an indorser.
    [See Bank of Alexandria v. Swann, 9 Pet. (34 U. S.) 33.]
    At law. Assumpsit [by the Bank of the United States] against [George Watterston] an indorser. The notice left by the notary with the defendant was of a note dated in 1832, when the true note was dated in 1830. In all other respects the notice was correct.
   THE COURT

(nem. con.) was of opinion upon the authority of Mills v. Bank of U. S., 11 Wheat. [24 U. S.) 431, that the notice was sufficient.

Judgment for the plaintiff.