Griswold v. Shaw

This was an action of assumpsit, by appellees, against appellant, to recover the amount of two promissory notes executed by the latter to the National Life Insurance Company of Chicago, and claimed to have been assigned to appellees.

The case was taken up, and judgment rendered against appellant’s objections, out of its order on the docket, under what is known as “ the five days’ rule ” of the Superior Court. This, as was held in Fisher v. The National Bank of Commerce, Sept. T. 1874, is error, for which the judgment must be reversed.

It appears, also, appellees were allowed to amend their…