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

Welsh v. Lindo.
    In an action against an indorser of a promissory note, a record of a judgment upon the same note between other parties cannot be given in evidence, unless the note itself be produced, and the defendant’s indorsement proved.
    Assumpsit against the defendant as indorser of a promissory note made by Kerchival to Lindo, who assigned it to Welsh, “without recourse,” who assigned it to Hodgsett.
    
      Mr. E. J. Lee, for the plaintiff,
    offered no evidence but a transcript of a record of a suit between Hodgsett and Kerchival, upon the note described in the declaration, in which suit the defendant pleaded payment to Lindo, and obtained a verdict on that issue.
    
      Mr. Sivann objected — That the record was not evidence in this cause, unless the plaintiff satisfied the jury, by other evidence, that the defendant assigned the note to the plaintiff. The note should be produced, and the handwriting of the defendant proved.
    
      Mr. E. J. Lee, contra.
    
    The note is filed in the court of Wood-ford county in Kentucky, at a greater distance than one hundred miles. The plaintiff cannot have a subpoena duces tecum. He cannot obtain the note. Hodgsett and Welsh both claimed under Lindo.
    
      A verdict is evidence, if it concern the same point, though not between the same parties. It is the best evidence in the power of the plaintiff.
    
      Mr. Swann, in reply.
    Upon application to the court in Kentucky, it is probable they would have suffered the original note to be taken out. Nothing appears to the contrary. Until the assignment of Lindo is proved, it does not appear that Lindo was privy, to Welsh, or to either of the other parties.
   The Court

(Duckett, J., absent,)

instructed the jury that the record is not evidence until the assignment from Lindo to the plaintiff be first proved otherwise than by the record.

A juror was .withdrawn by consent, and the cause continued at the costs of the plaintiff.