Ruddell v. Dillman

Bicknell, C.

— This was a suit by the endorsees against the maker and endorsers of a promissory note, payable at a bank in this State, to the order of the payee, negotiable by the statute as an inland bill of exchange, and governed by the law merchant. The original appellee, John Dillman, was the maker of the note; the other appellees were the endorsers. Dillman answered in two paragraphs :

The first was the geiieral denial.

The second was substantially as follows : That Hudson & Dougherty, the payees of the note, came to his residence and proposed to sell him dry goods for fifty cords of wood,…