Case Name: Malcolm vers. Gleason
Court: Superior Court of Judicature of the Province of Massachusetts Bay
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1767-08
Citations: 1 Super. Ct. Jud. 251
Docket Number: 
Parties: Malcolm vers. Gleason.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the Superior Court of Judicature of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, between 1761 and 1772
Volume: 1
Pages: 251–251

Head Matter:
Malcolm vers. Gleason.
1767.
The Acceptor of a negotiable Order is liable to a subsequent Indorsee, without Notice of the Indorsement.

Opinion:
A. drew a negotiable Order upon B. accepted the Order, and after Acceptance the Order was indorsed over. The Question was, if the Indorsee could support an Action against B. (upon his Acceptance aforesaid upon the Preserment of the Order by the Payee) before personal Notice given B., of Indorsement.
Ruled, unanimously, by all the five Judges, on Argument, that the Action was well brought, and that Notice to B. of Indorsement was not necessary; for B. was liable to Indorsee in the same Manner that he was to Payee, on the Acceptance.