Case ID: njl_17/html/0185-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JOSEPH T. HOPPINS v. JONAS MILLER.
    In case.
    A Promissory Note, dated at New York, without designating the place of payment, draws seven per cent interest; unless there be proof that it was made in this State.
    This was an action brought in this Court, by the Endorsee against the Maker of a Promissory Note in the following words:
    New York, 29 October, 1834.
    Three months after date, I promise to pay to John Wallis or order, two hundred and sixty-eight dollars, for value received.
    
      Mr. Green
    
    applied to the Court, for judgment and assessment of damages; and insisted that the plaintiff was entitled to seven per cent interest; the note being dated at New York, and not made payable in New Jersey or any other particular place, and cited, 3 Green, 328 ; 17 John. 511; 1 Wash. C. C. 521; 2 Ib. 253.
    
      M. P. Thompson, contra.
   By the Court.

This contract, upon the face of it, • a New York transaction, and must carry interest according to the laws of that State, which it is admitted, is seven per cent per annum ; unless it is shown to the Court, that the note was really made in this State.