Bronte v. Leslie

On the 29th of August, 1883, appellants executed their promissory note at Cincinnati, Ohio, whereby they jointly and severally promised to pay to George and John H. Leslie, or order, $3,000 six months after date. The consideration of the note was the sale to appellants of certain shares of stock of a mining company in Mexico known as The Santos Manufacturing and Mining Company. The note was transferred by indorsement and delivered to one William Grant, in the city of Chicago, and he, as the owner and holder of it, brought suit upon it after it matured, against the appellants as makers, in the…