Pitman v. Kintner

Pitman sued Kintner in debt. The declaration contains three counts, each alleging that the defendant “by and under the description of president of The Corydon Steam-Mill Company, by his certain writing obligatory signed by the name and style of P. S. Kintner', president, sealed with his seal,” &c. The defendant craved oyer of the instruments sued on. One of them (which is a 'sample of the whole) reads as follows: “ Twelve months after date, we, the president and directors of ‘ The Corydon Steam-Mill Company,’ promise to pay David, Pitman one hundred and fifty dollars, with interest at the…