Supreme Court of the United States March 18, 1844 (Rhett v. Poe)

Mr. Justice DANIEL

delivered the opinion of the court.

The instrument upon which this suit was instituted in the Circuit Court, was, as the aforegoing statement evinces, in form simply a common promissory note, signed by Benjamin R. Smith, made payable to William E. Haskell, endorsed by Haskell to Robert Barnwell Smith

alias

Robert Barnwell Rhett, and 'by this last individual to Robert F.