Unseld v. Stephenson

The suit was founded on a note executed by defendants to one Burke for $1,000, assigned by Burke to Coons after maturity, and by Coons endorsed and transferred to plaintiff.

In answer to the petition, defendants state that James N. Stephenson, one of the defendants, and Coons, on the 19th of June, 1856, about the time of the execution of the note, entered into articles of copartnership in carrying on the Missouri Hotel, in the city of St. Louis, at that time carried on by said Stephenson; that by the tenor of said agreement Coons was to pay to said Stephenson the sum of one thousand dollars,…