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  "id": 236657,
  "name": "Thomas Griffin, appellant, vs. Jesse Nokes, appellee",
  "name_abbreviation": "Griffin v. Nokes",
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  "first_page": "72",
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      "cite": "1 Ark. Terr. Rep. 72"
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ark. Super. Ct.",
    "id": 9132,
    "name": "Superior Court of the Territory of Arkansas"
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    "name_long": "Arkansas",
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    "batch": "2018"
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    "judges": [
      "Eskridge, J., concurred."
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    "parties": [
      "Thomas Griffin, appellant, vs. Jesse Nokes, appellee."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Johnson, J.,\ndelivered the opinion of the Court.\u2014 The first question is, whether a due bill not payable to order or bearer is assignable. We have no doubt that a due bill is embraced by the words of the statute, \u201c bonds, bills, and promissory notes.\u201d Geyer\u2019s Digest, 66. The second question is, whether a due bill can be assigned by an agent. Of this we have no doubt, and consider it too clear to require reasoning. Kyd on Bills, 33; Chitty on Bills, 198; Pothier on Obligations, 74, 448.\nEskridge, J., concurred.\nJudgment affirmed.\nStory on Bills, 76 ; Bayley on Bills, 69 to 74. But this must be done in the name of the principal, otherwise the agent will be held personally liable. To bind the principal and exonerate himself, he should regularly sign thus : \u201c A. B. (principal) by C. D., his agent\u201dor \u201c attorney,\u201d as the case may be, or what is less exact, \"but would suffice, \u201c C. D. for A. B.\u201d Story on Bills, 76, 77 ; Story on Agency, 153, In commercial and maritime contracts to promote public policy and encourage trade, if it can on the whole instrument be collected that the object is to bind the principal, and not the agent, courts of justice will adopt that construction of it, however loosely or informally expressed. Story on Agency, 154.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Johnson, J.,"
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    "head_matter": "Thomas Griffin, appellant, vs. Jesse Nokes, appellee.\nA due bill not payable to order or bearer, is assignable, and may be assigned by an agent.\nApril, 1829.\n\u2014 Appeal from the Crawford Circuit Court, determined before Benjamin Johnson and Thomas P. Eskridge, judges."
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