Case Name: COOKE v. MYERS
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1801-04
Citations: 6 F. Cas. 435
Docket Number: 
Parties: COOKE v. MYERS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 6
Pages: 435–435

Head Matter:
Case No. 3,174.
COOKE v. MYERS.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 6.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
April Term, 1801.
Action against Assignee of Lease—Phoof of Assignment.
In debt, by the lessor against the assignee of the lessee, the plaintiff ia not bound to show an assignment by deed acknowledged or proved and recorded agreeably to the fourth section of ike act of 13th December, 1792, “for regulating conveyances.”
Debt for rent, by [Stephen Cooke] lessor against [William Myers] assignee of lessee.
The plaintiff produced a paper signed by the defendant, in which he agreed to take the residue of Thompson’s lease, and bound himself to Thompson in the penal sum of -to pay all the rents which should become due to the plaintiff, Dr. Cooke, upon his lease to Thompson.
Mr. Swann, for defendant,
objected that it was not competent evidence to prove an assignment from Thompson to Myers, and cited the act of assembly, p. 1G5 (Ed. 1803, p. 157).
Mr. Simms, for plaintiff,
cited 1 Esp. 247 (Large Ed. 220); Cotes v. Wade, 1 Lev. 190; Pitt v. Russel, 3 Lev. 19; and Watson v. Alexander, 1 Wash. [Va.] 351,—and insisted that the paper produced was in this case evidence proper and competent to go to the jury, to prove an assignment; and of such opinion was THE COURT.

Opinion:
Mr. Swann took a bill of exceptions, but never carried the cause to the supreme court.