Taylor v. Farmers & Mechanics' Bank of Lexington

Opinion of the Court, ey

Judge Owsley.

THIS action was brought in the court below, by the Bank of Lexington, against Taylor and Baltzell, upon their endorsement on the following note:

“ On the first day of January 1820, I, Robert Taylor, promise to pay unto Joseph Taylor and' George Balt-zell, thirteen hundred and ninety-one dollars sixty-six cents, negotiable and payable at the Frankfort Bank without defalcation, for value received, Witness my hand this 13th day of October 1818.

Robert L. Taylor.”

The note was endorsed by Joseph Taylor and George Baltzell to F. P. Blair, and after several other…