Bonner v. John Gordon
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Washington county; the Hon. Silas L. Bryan, Judge, presiding. This was a suit brought by Bonner against Gordon and others, on the following promissory note : Centralia, III., June 30th, 1867. Sixty days after date, we promise to pay to the order of the First National Bank of Centralia, at the office of the First National Bank of Centralia, five hundred dollars, for value received, negotiable and payable without defalcation or discount,…
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Washington county; the Hon. Silas L. Bryan, Judge, presiding. This was a suit brought by Bonner against Gordon and others, on the following promissory note : Centralia, III., June 30th, 1867. Sixty days after date, we promise to pay to the order of the First National Bank of Centralia, at the office of the First National Bank of Centralia, five hundred dollars, for value received, negotiable and payable without defalcation or discount, with interest from maturity at the rate of ten per cent per annum. (Signed) John Gordon, A. Rauck, John Denler.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Lawrence
In this case the plaintiff declared on a promissory note, payable to his order, by the name and style of the First National Bank of Centralia. The defendant demurred, and the demurrer was sustained.
It is extraordinary that Bonner should have taken a note payable to himself by the name and style of the First National Bank of Centralia, but the demurrer admits he did so, and that the defendants gave it. This is not impossible, and may have arisen from some mistake susceptible of explanation. The demurrer, therefore, should have been overruled. It is, however, to be remarked that on the trial…
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