Bank of Kentucky v. Brooking

THIS is an action on a bill of exchange against the defendants in error, as indorsers by their partnership name, they being co-partners in trade. Each pleaded severally, nil debet, and one of them pleaded non est factum, in the usual form of that plea, when applied to sealed obligations, by which it is supposed, he intended to deny making the endorsement. On the trial the plaintiffs gave in evidence a bill of exchange, drawn by David Dodge on John Wilkinson, in favor of Silas W. Robins, ^'endorsed, first by him, then by Elijah Crosthwait, and lastly by Robert Brooking & Co. the company name…