Peoria Manufacturing Co. v. Huff

This was an action by the plaintiff in error, the Peoria Manufacturing Company (hereafter called the “ Manufacturing Company”), against E. P. Lawrence, E. S. Hawley, and E. T. Huff on their joint promissory note for $2,000, dated January 22, 1891, due sixty days after date. The plaintiff recovered in the district court for Lancaster county against Lawrence, but there was a verdict and judgment therein in favor of the other defendants, from which both Lawrence and the Manufacturing Company have prosecuted a proceeding by petition in error to this court.

*8The defendants below answered separately,…