Howard v. Schmidt

The opinion of the court was delivered by

DeBlakc, J.

This suit was filed by plaintiff on the tenth of November, 1873. He alleges that Mrs. Mary Jane Borden and William B. Schmidt are, in solido, indebted unto him in the sum of four thousand dollars, with interest thereon at the rate of eight per cent, from the seventeenth of March, 1871, costs of protest, and. attorney’s foes.

*130As concerns Mrs. Borden, plaintiff’s claim is predicated on a promissory note drawn to her own order, at the aforesaid date, by her indorsed and delivered to Schmidt as part of the purchase price of a lot of ground and…