Case No. 941.

BANK OF THE UNITED STATES v. WATTERSTON.

[4 Cranch, C. C. 445.]¹

Circuit Court, District of Columbia.

March Term, 1834.

NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS—NOTICE OF DISHONOR—MISTKAKE IN DATE OF NOTE.

A mistake in [the recital of] the date of the note will not invalidate the notice given to an indorser.

[See Bank of Alexandria v. Swann, 9 Pet (34 U. S.) 33.)

At law. Assumpsit [by the Bank of the United States] against [George Watterston] an indorser. The notice left by the notary with the defendant was of a note dated hi 1832, when the true note was dated in 1830. In all other respects the notice was correct

THE COURT (nem. con.) was of opinion upon the authority of Mills v. Bank of U. S., 11 Wheat. [24 U. S.] 431, that the notice was sufficient

Judgment for the plaintiff.

¹ [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]

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