Cook v. Elliott

This was a suit instituted in the St. Louis Court of Common Pleas, to recover of the defendant upon his written undertaking to pay the debt of another, which undertaking is in the words and figures following, to-wit:

“ St. Louis, April 28, 1858. — I hereby agree to pay, or cause to be paid, to C. M. Cook or order, two promissory notes, given by one John Sigerson & Bro., dated Cincinnati, December 15 and 16, 1857 ; one for three hundred and eighty-seven dollars and eighty-sis cents, payable to order of C. M. Cook, one year from date; the other for two hundred and fifty-four dollars and…