T. Cumins & Co. v. Leighton

This was a suit originally commenced before a justice of the peace, and tried in the circuit court on appeal. The appellants were plaintiffs, and the appellee was defendant in the court below. The suit was based on two promissory ■ notes given by appellee to appellants; the principal and interest amounted at the time of the trial in the circuit court, to . the sum of $250.42. °

On the trial the execution of the notes was admitted, and it was also admitted that appellants had sent the notes for collection to one J. N. Conger, a banker. It was the Oneida Exchange Bank of which Clarence Conger…