Case Name: RIDDLE v. MOTT
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1813-04
Citations: 20 F. Cas. 757
Docket Number: 
Parties: RIDDLE v. MOTT.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 20
Pages: 757–757

Head Matter:
Case No. 11,810.
RIDDLE v. MOTT.
[2 Cranch, C. C. 73.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
April Term, 1813.
Notes — Indorser — Demand and Notice— Maker’s Insolvency.
Demand, and notice to the indorser, are not necessary in Virginia, if the maker was so insolvent that they couíd be of no use to the defendant.
Assumpsit against the defendant as indorser of Patrick Ramsay’s note. '

Opinion:
THE COURT
instructed the jury that, under the law of Virginia, it was not necessary to prove a demand upon Ramsay, and notice to the defendant, if they should be satisfied by the evidence, that Ramsay was so insolvent, when the note became payable, (April, 1808,) that such demand and notice would not have been a benefit to the defendant. Quaere.