Whitworth v. Ballard

On the 29th day of September, 1873, Christopher C. M. Bock made his promissory note, payable sixty days after date, to McCorkle & Co., for two hundred and fifty-five dollars and twenty cents, for value received, without relief from valuation or appraisement laws, with ten per cent, interest from date until paid. The payees were a firm by the name of McCorkle & Co., composed of John L. McCorkle, William B. Whit-worth and Benjamin Benbow. It is alleged that the payees, on the 30th day of September, 1873, for value received, endorsed the note in writing, by the name and style of “ McCorkle &…