Byers v. Alcorn

Byers & Boody were a firm, composed of Alexander L. Byers and George W. Boody; and A. L. & E. Byers were a firm, composed of the said Alexander L. Byers and Eobert Byers, the plaintiff in error, who was the defendant in the court below. On the 9th day of December, 1874, the firm of Byers & Boody borrowed of E. J. McKenney & Co., of Vincennes, Indiana, the sum of 02,000, and gave their promissory note for that amount, and of that date, payable ninety days after date, at the Vincennes Deposit Bank, Vincennes, Indiana, with interest at the rate of ten per cent, from date until paid, and…