Carter v. Carter

This was an action, originally brought before a justice of the peace, on a promissory note made by defendants to plaintiff’s intestate. The note was dated on the 21st day of February, 1847, and on the 10th day of November, 1855, a small credit was indorsed on it in the handwriting of English, the payee and intestate. The suit was commenced on the 23d clay of October, 1865, and the defense set up was the statute of limitations. The defendants had judgment in the magistrate’s court, and, on appeal to the Circuit Court, the note was read in evidence, and the indorsement thereon, íyithout…