Kelly v. Freedman

Defendant is sued as endorser of a promissory note for $3750 dated April 7, 1883, made by Sampson & Freedman and payable to their own order, endorsed by them without recourse as first endorsers, at four months. The note bears no place of dating, and was made payable at a bank in Detroit. The makers, at its date, were tobacco dealers in Chicago, and defendant is a widow, the aunt of Freedman, one of the makers, and lives in Detroit. Plaintiff, who is doing business in New York Individually but under a firm name, claims to have received the paper a few weeks after its date from the Chicago…