State v. Cummings

This is an appeal by Charles K. Cummings, one of the two defendants, from a judgment which the circuit court rendered against him in the amount of $5,000 after it had entered findings of fact and conclusions of law. The subject matter of the action was an alleged indebtedness of $5,000 which, the complaint avers, was evidenced by a writing, dated October 5, 1951, signed by the defendants and which acknowledged to one Mary P. Burrell an indebtedness of $5,000. The complaint denominates the writing a “demand promissory note.” The plaintiffs in the action are, respectively, the executor and…