Hurd v. Marple

Some time prior to the great fire in Chicago, on the 8th and 9th of October, 1871, the appellee, through her agent, Jirah Cole, loaned to the Highland Park Building Company, a corporation existing under and by virtue' of the laws of this State, $1500.00, for which said corporation executed its promissory note, payable to the appellee, due six months after date with ten per cent, interest. This note, after being extended from time to time, was destroyed by fire at the time of the great conflagration.

On the 1st day of April, 1872, the company gave another note in substitution for the one first…