Case Name: John Downing against George Backenstoes
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1805-08
Citations: 3 Cai. 137
Docket Number: 
Parties: John Downing against George Backenstoes.
Judges: 
Reporter: Caines' Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 137–137

Head Matter:
John Downing against George Backenstoes.
A promissory note without words of negotiability, may, in an action by the payee against the maker, be declared on as a note within the statute.
ASSUMPSIT by the payee of a promissory note, without words of negotiability, in which the plaintiff declared, as on a note within the statute ; and this was the only count in the declaration.
Caines, on a general demurrer,
, confessed, that if the case were to be determined on the English decisions, it . ... would be against him, but if it were res integra m this court, he had much to say.

Opinion:
Per curiam.
The very point was settled in Green v. Long, April term, 1798, in conformity to the adjudications in Westminster-Hall. The plaintiff must have judgment.