Case Name: Thierry et al. v. Laffon
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1849-05
Citations: 4 La. Ann. 347
Docket Number: 
Parties: Thierry et al. v. Laffon.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 347–347

Head Matter:
Thierry et al. v. Laffon.
The payee of a bill of exchange drawn abroad, payable and ptotested here, cannot recover ■ damages against the acceptor.
In r.n action, by tlie payees, on a bill endorsed by themselves, and afterwards by a third person, in blank, it is unnecessary to state such endorsements in the petition, or, in tile absence of any evidence to impugn the title of the plaintiffs, to prove them on the trial.
from the Fourth District Court of New Orleans, Strawbiidge, I.
Lombard, for the plaintiffs.
Griffin, for the appellant.

Opinion:
The judgment of the court was pronounced by
Slidell, J.
The plaintiffs, as payees of a bill of exchange, drawn in Paris, and payable in New Orleans, sue the defendant as acceptor. The judgment allows the plaintiffs the amount of the bill, with interest from date of protest, and five per cent damages. We are not aware of any law allowing damages against the acceptor, under the circumstances. In the case refereed to (Pecquet v. Mayer, 14 La. 74,) the defendant was the drawer of the bills.
The bill exhibits the blank endorsements of the payees and- of one Tighter. These endorsements were not stated in the petition. It was not necessary so to state them, nor to prove them at the trial. See the case of Hepburn v. Ratliff, 2 An. 331. There was no evidence offered by the defendant to impugn the title of the plaintiffs.
It is therefore, decreed, that the judgment be. amended by striking therefrom the allowance of damages; and that, so amended, the judgment be affirmed; the plaintiff' paying the costs of this appeal.