LaFollette Coal & Iron Co. v. Whiting Foundry Equipment Co.

—The only question presented for decision-by the assignment of errors is the correctness of the conclu*648sions of law stated by the court upon the facts specially found. A statement of the pleadings is unnecessary. The special finding of facts and the conclusions of law are as follows: “That the plaintiff is a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the state of Illinois; that on the 4th day of December, 1895, the defendant, Millard W. Simmons, executed his certain promissory note to the order of the LaFollette Coal and Iron Company, due five months after date, for $2,625,…