Case Name: THOMAS FERNON, Indorsee of JNO. LYNCH vs. THOMAS FARMER'S Administrator
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1832
Citations: 1 Harr. 32
Docket Number: 
Parties: THOMAS FERNON, Indorsee of JNO. LYNCH vs. THOMAS FARMER’S Administrator.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 32–32

Head Matter:
THOMAS FERNON, Indorsee of JNO. LYNCH vs. THOMAS FARMER’S Administrator.
The words “or order” or words tantamount, necessary to make a note negociable.
Assumpsit on promissory note. Indorser vs. Maker. Pleas. Non assumpsit; payment and discount; Act of Liminations and plene administravit. Reps, and issues.
Plff. proved the execution of the note and the indorsement to him, and a promise, by the deft’s, intestate, after the indorsement, to pay the note to plff.
Hamilton, for deft, moved a nonsuit.
The note declared on is a note payable to Thomas Lynch, or order. The note proved, is payable to Thomas Lynch, but not to his order. This is a fatal variance.
Bayard suggested that the words “or order,” might be stricken out without affecting the instrument; if so, it is mere surplusage.
Wales replied, that it was of substance and material. ' Chitty on Bills, 140.
J. A. Bayard, for plff.
Hamilton and Wales, for deft»

Opinion:
The question was, whether the words "or order" were necessary to make the note negociable, and the court being of that opinion,
Nonsuited the plff.