Case ID: greene_2/html/0372-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "GeeeNe, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Fulweiler v. Singer.
    Pleas, averring that one of two payees of a note, became bankrupt after the note was made and before it was indorsed to Oie plaintiff, are defective unless tlieyr aver, that the party who indorsed the note wasnot authorized to do so; thattlie note was or should have been set forth in the bankrupt’s inventory of assets; and thattlie note was so held as to be vested by virtue of the decree, in the assignee of the bankrupt, or that he otherwise acquired an interest or control over the note.
    
      Error to Dubuque District Court.
    
   Opinion by

GeeeNe, J.

Enion Singer sued Abraham Fulweiler in assumpsit, on a promissory note executed August 6, 1838, and made payable to Singer and Ooust, and by them indorsed to tlie plaintiff. The defendant pleaded non-assumpsit in the usual form, and several special pleas averring in general terms: 1. That Ooust the assignee of said note, became a bankrupt after it was made and before it was assigned to tlie plaintiff. 2. That he became a bankrupt in Ohio, August 19, 184-1; and 3. by an amended plea that said Ooust became sucli bankrupt, according to tlie true intent and meaning of an act of Congress, passed August 19th, 1841, and that he was so declared by the district court of the United States, for tlie state of Ohio, and that said court appointed an assignee for the said Ooust, who was entitled to said note at the time it was assigned to the plaintiff. A demurrer to the three special pleas was sustained. The case was then submitted to the court upon tlie general issue and judgment rendered upon the note in favor of the plaintiff.

It is now contended, that the court erred in sustaining the demurrer to the three special pleas. In this we can see no error, as those pleas appear to be defective, not only in form, but in substance. Upon the face of the papers, the note appears to have been regularly indorsed to the present holder, and there is no specific allegation in either plea, that the indorsement was not made by a party duly authorized to assign the same; they contain no averment that the note or the bankrupt’s interest in the note, was or should have been set forth in his inventory of property rights and credits; nor that the note was so held as to be vested by foree of the'-deeree, and by operation of law, in the assignee of such bankrupt, or that he otherwise acquired any legal interest oreontrol over the note before the indorsement; nor does either of said pleas give the name of the assignee in bankruptcy. In these particulars we cannot but regard the pleas as substantially defective, and therefore conclude, that the demurrer was properly sustained by the court below.

Wilson c& Smith, for plaintiff in error.

Da/uis do Bissell, for defendant.

Judgment affirmed.