Lesueur v. Backstein

— -'James W. Lesueur, hereinafter called plaintiff, brought suit against J. Back-stein, hereinafter called defendant, alleging that he, plaintiff, was the accommodation maker on two promissory notes made by both parties for the accommodation of defendant; that he had been required to pay them for the party accommodated, and was therefore entitled to recover thereon in place of the payee named in the notes, to whom payment bad been made by him. He alleged that defendant had filed a petition in bankruptcy after the notes were made, but that the latter made a new promise to pay them after such…