Case ID: njl_68/html/0245-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOMERVILLE v. CORNELIUS S. HOFFMAN, T. FRANK APPLEBY AND LEWIS M. CODDINGTON.
    Submitted April 14, 1902
    Decided June 9, 1902.
    Where a prior endorser has paid a judgment on a note and taken an assignment of the same, it should be canceled as to a subsequent endorser.
    On rule to show cause why the judgment entered in the above cause against Lewis M. Coddington should not be canceled.
    Before Justices Fort, Hendrickson and Pitney.
    For the rule, William V. Steele.
    
    
      Contra, Ruliff V. Lawrence.
    
   Per Curiam.

This is .an application to cancel a judgment as to Lewis M. Coddington, the last endorser on the note upon which judgment is entered. A prior endorser has paid the judgment to the judgment creditor and taken an assignment of the judgment. There is no ambiguity upon the face of the note, and nothing is imported except the usual contract of endorsement. The prior endorser, having paid the note, he cannot hold it against the applicant. As between them, he is not liable upon the note, nor can the prior endorser enforce the judgment against the applicant. These facts are not disputed.

An order may be entered canceling the judgment against Lewis M. Coddington. Neither party will be allowed costs.