Summers v. Sleeth

The appellee brought suit against the appellant, and this was the complaint:

“ George B. Sleeth, plaintiff] complains of William D. Summers, defendant, and says that said defendant, on the 27th day of September, 1864, by .his promissory note, which was signed by him as W. D. Summers, which is hereto attached, promised to pay the Junction Railroad Company the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, without relief from' valuation or appraisement laws, on the arrival of the first train ‘of cars on said Junction railroad at Rushville, which note said Junction Railroad Company, by J. Leach, their…