Wahrendorff & Ober v. Whitaker

Whitaker and others, assignees of Prentice & Bakewell, brought an action of assumpsit, in the Circuit Court of St. Louis county, against the plaintiffs in error, on a promissory note. The defendants plead non-assumpsit, and, by consent, the trial of the issue was submitted to the Court. The bill of exceptions tendered by the defendants, shows that on the trial, the plaintiffs produced in evidence, a joint promissory note to Prentice &. Bakewell, for §5,000, purporting to have been executed by Jacob Reed, for himself, and by Wahrendorff, Oberl and several others, by Jacob Reed, their attorney…