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WOODBURY, (Defendant in Court Mow,) Aweii.ANT; VS. CHAMI-KS G.VKTH, <,riainttff in Cmul Moi KKirOMUKNT. mt^m^mmiw^% This action was one instituted by ttiu Uespondunt against the Appellant as the endorser of a Promissory Note, made by one Narcisse Triulean, also a Dc- lendant in the Court below, for the sum of =€90 Is. 7d., bearing date Montreal, '2nd October, 18 14, payable three months after date, and protested for non-pay- ment on the 5th day of January, 1H55. To this action the Appellant plended three distinct exceptions, alleging in ^itbstance that true it was he !.ad endorsed I lie note in question, but (hat the Hespondent [Plaintiff in the Court below,] had long after the note had arrived at maturity leccived payments on account Irom the maker, and in fact taken from the maker, [Trudeau,] a note bearing date from the 4th day ofApril, 1855, for the sum of £li 7s. Od., payable thrte. months after date for the balance thereby, virtually discharging llie Appellant. The Appellant in support of these exceptions fyled two receipts signed by liespondent in favor of Niircisse Trudeau, one 'Jmed .Montreal, 7th February, 1855, the oiher dated 4th April, 1855, the latter of which is worded as follow : ''Mor.- " treal, April 4th, 1855. Keceived from Mr. N. Trudeau his note at 3 months for " the seventy-two pounds 7s. Cd., said note being fir the balance of note .£90 Is. ".6d., which I paid, and which note I hold till this note is paid, the expenses on " which to be settled at the same time. Signed, Chtirlcs Garth.'' The Respondent, by his answers to the exception.^ so pleaded by Appellant, iilley:ed that although true it was he !iad received the said sums frci.i Trudeau, on account of the note sued lor, and although true it was he had taken Tru- (iean's note for the lialnnce as set forth in the pleas, yet this was all done with ilie Appellant's knowledge and concurrence, iii:d the last note was given as a mutter of accommodation to the Respondent, and that Woodbury, the Appellant, sanctioned the whole proceeding, and promised to pay the old note in case Tru- deau did not pay the new one. Respondent to sup{x>rt his answers to Appellant's pleas, felt he was bound to make proof of the new facts by him set forth in his said answers, and to attain this object produced three witnesses to proA'e this new contract or under- taking on the part of the Appellnnt. These three witnesses were servants in Respondent's, [Plaintill' in Court below] employ, one of whom however, Ni- cholson, contradicts Suchanan, another witness, who swears positively that Nicholson and Lucas were present when the note was signed by Trudeau, and also heard what passed upon the occasion. To the adduction of verbal testi- mony to prove the new averment which has the effect of setting aside written evi- dence ; tne Appellant at Enquete objected, as appears on the face of the depo- sitions of Buchanan, Nicholson and Lucas, which several objections were re- served by the Judges presiding at Enquete, and answers taken de bent esse, which answers were, upon the argument on merits, finally allowed by the Court, and Respondent's motion to reject tho evidence, the answers so taken de bene esse dismissed with costs. I Injik3£ zm^mMMi* ^.^.v.^Uifri ilt^i- The Appellant contmds that verbal eviduiicu to disprove the receipts filoj and to shew that the socund note wns only on necummodation note, cannot le- gally be adduced in this cause, in contrndit-tion to llespundcnt'H own receipt. That the receipt given by Uesjwndunt to Trudouii m itsell' evidence ot the arrangement between Garth, the Kespondent, and "'rudeiiu, and 'iilly cstnbiishex the facts set up by Appellant in his exceptions, and that (he Court below erruU in a.'lowing that evidence to be received. The rule of law that laches on the part of a holder of on endorsed Bill, however trivial, shall bo operative in dis- charge of the endorser, is here set at naught, and the vnKne, uncertain, and con- tradictory testimony of two of Hespondent's 8«rvnnt^<, allowed to set oside writ- ten arrangements which have for several years been considered as final and conclusive, so much so that Garth instituted an action in Supreme Court against Trudeau upon said last mentioned note. Appellant further contends that cyeu if verbal evidence could be adduced under all the circunistanc'cs in this caisc lo set aside the receipts giveji by Kespondent, the presumptions IVoiii the evidence produced are in favor of Appellant. Apixillant contends Ihiit the evidence {>{ Buchanan should be wholly set aside, because he swears positively that Nichol- son, one of the other witnesses, was present and saw and n ^ard all that pnsiscd iit the signmg of the second note, while Nicholson distinctly says he kiiow.s iiolhin;' about the second note, and was not present at the making of it. The Hespondent's case would then rest upon the evidence of Lucas alune to prove the fact that ApjMjIlant was a party to the pretended arrangements set up in Ke.s|X)ndent's answers in the Court below, which evidence is exceedingly vaa couple of his ser>'ant8 to contradict what he himself has written with his own hand, and thereby saddle the endorser with the payment of a large sum of money with accumulated interest, it will be overturning all the rules by which commercial men have heretofore governed themselves, and may place the for- ttmes of one-half the community in jeopardy. Montreal, September, lfe57. M. MORISON, Attorney for Appellant. k ic receipts filod note, cannot Ic- I own receipt, evidence ot the 'iilly eslnbiieiheN urt below erred it Inches on the perative in dig- ertain, nnd con- ) set aside writ- d as final and le Court against itends that cyen 8 in this case lo ini the tivideiici' the evidence of ely that Mchdi- II that passed at ; knows nolliinjr of Lucas alotiK rrangeinents set i [a exceedingly examined as a ing of the trnn- Woodbury were ly after the in- deau, what the this Court tlmt M's to negotiate dug a new note ipaid for several dorser debarred orscr, bring up a 1 with his own a large sum of rules by which y place the for- i\ M ORISON, / for Appcllunt.