Jacobs v. Brown

This is an action of contract to recover the principal and interest of two promissory notes, each payable to the plaintiff or his order, signed by the corporation as maker and by the defendants Brown, Kenyon and Ginn as indorsers. The plaintiff having discontinued as to the corporation, the trial proceeded against the indorsers, and, the plaintiff having obtained a verdict, the case is here on the defendants’ exceptions to the denial of a motion for a directed verdict, to the rulings on evidence, to the refusal to give certain requests, and to portions of the instructions to the jury.

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