Hickman v. Kunkle

This action was originally before the recorder of Hannibal, who was acting as a justice of the peace, but it was subsequently tried in the Hannibal court of common pleas. The suit was upon a negotiable promissory note for seventy-one dollars and forty-two cents, executed, in the name of Webb & Kunlde, partners in a livery stable, to the plaintiffs, who dealt in stoves, tin-ware, &c. Upon the trial, the plaintiffs offered to read the note in evidence, but the defendant stated, ore terms, that the note was executed by Webb on his own private account and without the knowledge or consent of…