Flint v. Lewis

On the 23d day of May, 1863, the appellee, William Lewis, being indebted to a firm doing business in the city of Gales-burg, in this State, under the name of C..S. Colton & Sons, in the sum of $874.08, executed to said firm his four promissory notes of that date, for the sum of $218.52 each, and payable respectively in one, two, three and four years from date, with interest at the rate of ten per cent per annum, payable annually. As security for the payment of these notes, he, at the ■ same time, executed a trust deed, for the benefit of the payees, to one Milo D. Cooke, as trustee, the deed…