Hall v. Suitt

The appellee as indorsee sued John Hall, Benjamin Hall, and Eli Carey, the makers, and the Eagle Machine Works, the payee and indorser of two promissory notes, made payable at the Citizens’ National Bank of Indianapolis. The Eagle Machine Works made default. The. makers of the notes pleaded to the jurisdiction of the court, that the action was brought by the assignee of a claim: arising out of contract assigned to the plaintiff by the defendant, the Eagle Machine Works; fhat said action was founded on said claim so assigned; that John Hall and Eli Carey resided in the *317county of Hamilton,…