Murphey v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank

Ragan, 0.

The Illinois Trust & Savings Bank brought this suit in the district court of Saline county against George M. Murphey upon a promissory note given by Murphey to the bank which upon its face purports to have been given for the rent of certain elevators. At the close of the evidence the jury, in obedience to an instruction of the district court, returned a verdict for the plaintiff, upon which the court entered a judgment, to review which Murphey has filed here a petition in error.

1. Murphey, to the action of the bank, interposed four defenses, though the same are not so separately…