Roanoke Grocery & Milling Co. v. Watkins

Holt, President:

Upon a writ of error to a judgment rendered by the Circuit Court of Mercer county on the 21st of May, 1895, for eight hundred and forty two dollars and seventy eight cents in favor of the Roanoke, etc., Company against defendant H. C. Jones, who alone appeals. The suit was an action of debt, containing two counts, upon the following negotiable note, irregularly indorsed by W. P. Phillips (dead at the time of the suit) and defendant H. C. Jones, which note reads as follows: “$745.83. P. O. Bluefield, Dec. 28, 1892. Seventy eight days after date we promise to pay to the order of…