Lewis v. Headley
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Macon county; the Hon. Charles Emerson, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by defendant in error, against plaintiff in error, on two promissory notes. One was for two thousand and the other for eight thousand dollars, both payable to defendant in error, one day after date; the former with six and the latter with one per cent, interest. They both bear date the 13th of March, 1861, at Decatur, Illinois.
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Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Macon county; the Hon. Charles Emerson, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by defendant in error, against plaintiff in error, on two promissory notes. One was for two thousand and the other for eight thousand dollars, both payable to defendant in error, one day after date; the former with six and the latter with one per cent, interest. They both bear date the 13th of March, 1861, at Decatur, Illinois. The defense relied upon is, that the consideration of the notes sued upon was bills of the Morris County Bank, in Hew Jersey, of a…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Walker
On the trial below, the court, on behalf of the plaintiff, instructed the jury that if they believed, from the evidence, that the indebtedness accrued from the Railroad Bank to the Morris County Bank, for its notes of a less denomination than five dollars, unless they farther believed that the Morris County Bank was aware that it was a violation of the laws of the State of Illinois to circulate therein bills of that character, they should find for the plaintiff. Also, that if they believed, from the evidence, that the notes sued upon were given by plaintiff in error to secure a balance due…
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