Browning v. Merritt

This was a suit by the appellees, as plaintiffs, against the appellants, Robert Browning and George W. Barker and one Jacob II. Colelazer, as defendants, on a promissory note.

In the appellees’ complaint, it was alleged, in substance, that, on March 7th, 1876, the defendant Colelazer, being indebted to Courvoisier, Wilcox & Co., executed to them his note for three thousand five hundred dollars, due four months after date, at the German-American National Bank, of New York; that the appellants Browning and Barker then and there endorsed said note, intending to become jointly liable thereon with…