Townsend v. J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co.

Cobb, Ch. J.

The J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company, a private corporation under the laws of the state of Wisconsin, on May 28, 1888, brought its action in the district court of Gage county against Hannah A. Townsend and Wallace J.' Townsend, her husband, defendants, to recover certain promissory notes, secured by certain mortgages on lots 1 and 2, in block 1, in the city of Beatrice, in said county, as follows:

1. The defendant’s note, for value received, for $400, dated January 27, 1885, due three years after date, with *837ten per cent interest, payable semi-annually, to Benjamin F. Leidy,…