Brewster v. Arnold
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF MILWAUKEE COUHTY. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by the plaintiff in error, against the defendant in error, as endorser of two promissory notes for $510.36 each, made by Joseph A. Arnold; one dated October 6th, the other October 20th, 1845, payable each three months after date to the order of Jonathan E. Arnold, at 44 Cedar street, New York, and by Mm endorsed to plaintiff, "by writing on tlie back of each, “ J. E. Arnold, Milwaukee,…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF MILWAUKEE COUHTY. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by the plaintiff in error, against the defendant in error, as endorser of two promissory notes for $510.36 each, made by Joseph A. Arnold; one dated October 6th, the other October 20th, 1845, payable each three months after date to the order of Jonathan E. Arnold, at 44 Cedar street, New York, and by Mm endorsed to plaintiff, "by writing on tlie back of each, “ J. E. Arnold, Milwaukee, W. T.” The defendant pleaded tlie general issue; and at tlie trial, (May Term, 1852,) tlie plaintiff read tke notes in…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Ckawfobd, J.
This case comes before us by a writ of error to the Circuit Court for the county of Milwaukee. The plaintiff in error, as en-dorsee of the two promissory notes, commenced an action of trespass on the case upon promises against the defendant in error as endorser. The notes were given by J. A. Arnold, payable to. the order of J. E. Arnold, (the defendant in error) at No. 44 Cedar street, in the city of New York, and were each for the sum of five hundred and ten dollars and thirty-six' cents, payable three months after date.
It appears that these notes, having been…
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