Ramsey v. Peoria Marine & Fire Insurance

This was an action of assumpsit, in the Peoria circuit court, on a promissory note, to which the general issue was pleaded, with leave to set up any defense, and put in any evidence which the defendant might, under any and all special pleas, well pleaded.

The action was brought to the November term, 1869, of the circuit court, by the Peoria Marine & Fire Insurance Company, for the use of William M. Dodge, receiver, on a stock note made by the defendant for the balance due on the purchase by him of seventy shares of the stock of that company, at the par value of $100 per share.

The note bore…