Mullen v. Pryor
Supreme Court of Missouri
ERROR TO ST, LOUIS CIRCUIT COURT. STATEMENT OF THE CASE. Goorge M. Pryor, brought suit against Win. J. Mullen, in the St. Louis eiicuit court, at its April term for 18-18, on a non-negotiable note, drawn by one Urbin E. Fort, payable to tho ordor of said Pdullen, bearing date December 12th, 1840, payable oup day afterdate, and assigned to said Pryor on the 15th Dee., 1840, for the sum of two hundred dollars.
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ERROR TO ST, LOUIS CIRCUIT COURT. STATEMENT OF THE CASE. Goorge M. Pryor, brought suit against Win. J. Mullen, in the St. Louis eiicuit court, at its April term for 18-18, on a non-negotiable note, drawn by one Urbin E. Fort, payable to tho ordor of said Pdullen, bearing date December 12th, 1840, payable oup day afterdate, and assigned to said Pryor on the 15th Dee., 1840, for the sum of two hundred dollars. The plaintiff at the trial, read in evidence depositions of Louis Brown and Ed-ward M. Samuel, taken at Liberty, Missouri, on 7th March, 1848¡ Brown testified that he was acquainted with…
1Opinion of the Court
Napton, judge,
delivered the opinion of the- court-
Pryor instituted a suit in 1848, against Mullen, upon a note executed on the 12th Dec., 1840, by one U. E. Fort, and assigned by said Fort to the plaintiff on the 15th Dec-, 1840. The declaration charged the making and assigning of said note iruthe usual way, and avers that when the said promissory note became due and payable, to wit on-the 16th Dec., 1840, the said Fort, the maker, was insolvent, so that a suit against the said maker of the said promissory note aforesaid, would have been unavailing, by means whereof, and by force of the…
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