Case Name: JOSEPH T. HOPPINS v. JONAS MILLER
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1839-09
Citations: 17 N.J.L. 185
Docket Number: 
Parties: JOSEPH T. HOPPINS v. JONAS MILLER.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 17
Pages: 185–185

Head Matter:
JOSEPH T. HOPPINS v. JONAS MILLER.
In case.
A Promissory Note, dated at New York, without designating the place of payment, draws seven per cent interest; unless there be proof that it was made in this State.
This was an action brought in this Court, by the Endorsee against the Maker of a Promissory Note in the following words:
New York, 29 October, 1834.
Three months after date, I promise to pay to John Wallis or order, two hundred and sixty-eight dollars, for value received.
Mr. Green
applied to the Court, for judgment and assessment of damages; and insisted that the plaintiff was entitled to seven per cent interest; the note being dated at New York, and not made payable in New Jersey or any other particular place, and cited, 3 Green, 328 ; 17 John. 511; 1 Wash. C. C. 521; 2 Ib. 253.
M. P. Thompson, contra.

Opinion:
By the Court.
This contract, upon the face of it, • a New York transaction, and must carry interest according to the laws of that State, which it is admitted, is seven per cent per annum ; unless it is shown to the Court, that the note was really made in this State.