Case Name: CROPPER v. NELSON
Court: United States Circuit Court for the District of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1811-10
Citations: 6 F. Cas. 872
Docket Number: 
Parties: CROPPER v. NELSON.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 6
Pages: 872–873

Head Matter:
Case No. 3,417.
CROPPER v. NELSON.
[3 Wash. C. C. 125.]
Circuit Court, D. Pennsylvania.
Oct. Term, 1811.
In’tf.kested Witness.
1. In an action on a hill of exchange, brought by the endorsee of the second endorser, against the payee, who had endorsed the bill - to the plaintiff; the plaintiff’s endorser cannot be a witness to prove that the bill belongs to him.
2. Exchange is to be settled at the rate prevailing at the time of the verdict.
[Cited in Weed v. Miller, Case No. 17,346.]
Action on a bill against the payee, who en•dorsed it to one B., in blank, who endorsed it -in full to the plaintiff. The defendant offer■ed B., to prove that he is the real owner of ■this bill, in order to show a want of jurisdiction in the court; B. being a citizen of this state.
[Originally published from the MSS. of Hon. Bushrod Washington, Associate Justice of tho Supreme Court of the United States, under the supervision of Richard Peters, Jr., Esq.]

Opinion:
BY THE COURT.
The witness cannot be admitted to swear himself into an interest It wotild be a great temptation to perjury to admit him.
THE COURT directed the jury to settle the exchange, (this being a sterling bill,) as of this day, which is from 18 to 20 per cent below par.