Adamson v. McKeon

For convenience, plaintiff and his assignors will be denominated “plaintiffs.” We disregard, as immaterial to the points under discussion, the alleged element of the agreement by which a $10 shortage on the basis of the alleged computation was to be borne by the five equally.

I. Defendant’s first proposition is that the contract alleged was between the makers of a promissory note to be bound thereon inter se in a proportion different from that equal liability implied by law, and, being oral, is not provable, ° under the promise to answer for the debt of an-_ . other clause of the statute ox…