Indiana Manufacturing Co. v. Porter

Best, C.

This action originated before a justice of the peace, and was founded upon the following order :

“The Indiana Mfg. Co. will pay J. R. Porter, or order,. $40.00 from any amount due me on orders, or for services, and $20.00 from any amount which may be due me for the month of September, and $20.00 from any amount which may be due me from orders or services for October; and $20.00 which may be due me from orders or for services for November, 1876. John Stillinger.”

The appellee was the plaintiff, and it was averred in the complaint, that John Stillinger, in the year 1876 delivered to the…