Jones v. Green

On February 17, 1922, one J. F. Taft, representing-himself as the president of the dinners’ Compress Trust of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, leased to the Magazine Gin Company, which was a partnership composed of J. T. Jones and C. J. Gorham, a round-bale cotton press for baling cotton into cylinder hales, and appellants executed and delivered to said Ginners’ Compress Trust the following note:

“$1200. Booneville, Ark., Feb. 17, 1922.

“October 17, 1922, after date, for value received, I, we, or either of us, promise to pay to the order of Gin-ners ’ Compress Trust, of Milwaukee, Wis., twelve hundred…