Porter v. Holloway

Suit by the appellee, indorsee, against the appellants, as makers of the following promissory note: “$400. Camden, Ind., Nov. 3d, 1869.

For value received, one year after date, we promise to pay Thomas H. Tobin, or bearer, four hundred dollars, at the bank in Delphi, with ten per cent, interest from maturity, without any relief from valuation or appraisement laws.

“A. Porter & Son.”

In the rulings of the court upon the pleadings and on *36the trial of the cause, the note was treated as a note governed by the law which governs inland bills of exchange.

The statute is, that notes payable to order or…