Stewart v. Shaw

Cooley, O. J.

Plaintiff sued in justice’s court ujion a promissory note for forty-four dollars, purporting to have-been made by defendant Thomas B. Shaw, March 9, 1880, payable ninety days after date to the order of "William Stewart the plaintiff’s testator, and endorsed by the defendant Edward Fitzgerald. The plaintiff had judgment in the-justice’s court, and the defendants appealed.

The execution of the note by Shaw was not denied, and the-endorsement by Fitzgerald was proved. The plaintiff proved by "W. E. Stewart, a son of the testator, that the note was. found in his father’s box of papers…