Herbage v. McEntee

The plaintiff sued the defendant before a justice of the peace and declared on a promissory note of which the following is a copy:

“Bast Saginaw, April 22d, 1872.

$200.00. Bor value received I promise to pay Daniel Herbage or bearer the sum of two hundred dollars with ten per cent, interest the 22d day of April, 1873.

W. B. SCHENDALL.”

Endorsed: “ Patrick McEntee.”

The justice rendered judgment for the plaintiff, but the circuit court reversed it on certiorari. It seems to have been supposed that in Rothschild v. Grix, 31 Mich., 150, the former was held to be a maker of the note there in question…