Ott v. Seward

Citations

• 221 Pa. 630
• 70 A. 882
• 1908 Pa. LEXIS 542

Syllabus

<p>Promissory notes — Accommodation indorsers — Defense—Notice.</p> <p>In an action by the holders of a promissory note against an indorser, the latter cannot set up as a defense to the action, that a person representing the maker of the note had told him that the plaintiffs had requested his indorsement as an accommodation to them, where there is nothing whatever to show that the defendant was requested by the plaintiffs themselves to become an accommodation indorser for them, or that he was ever accepted as such by them, and there is nothing’to show that the person making the alleged statement was acting for the plaintiffs or that such statement had ever been communicated to them.</p>