Roberts v. Masters

The only questions presented by the record for our decision are, whether the court erred in sustaining demurrers to the first, second, third, and fifth paragraphs of the complaint.

Francis M. Stone, on the 22d day of June, 1868, executed his note payable to Jacob H. Masters, four months after date, for the sum of twelve hundred dollars. Masters, the payee of the note, indorsed and delivered the same to John Roberts, the plaintiff below and appellant here. The action was *463brought against the maker and assignor. Stone, the maker, pleaded his discharge in bankruptcy, and thus went out of the case.…