The President, Etc. v. . Cornen

The action is brought upon a promissory note for 3,000, purporting to have been made by the defendant, by his attorney, H.A. Bartlett, dated 18th September, 1860, payable three months from date to the order of Carson Hard, and by them indorsed to Jessup Laflin, who indorsed it to the plaintiffs.

It appeared upon the trial that Bartlett, who made the note in the defendant's name, was his attorney in fact, for him and in his name, place and stead, to sign all notes and checks, and accept all drafts, in conducting his business, as then prosecuted by him in the city of New York. That the note was,…