Powers v. Briggs

Suit was brought on two promissory notes, for $600 each, one payable in one year and the other payable in two years from date, but, in other respects, precisely the same in form. That payable in one year from date is as follows:

Ҥ600. Chicago, May 17, 1870.

One year after date, we, the trustees of the Seventh Presbyterian Church, promise to pay to the order of H. G. Powers six hundred dollars, value received, with interest at six per cent per annum,

A. H. Briggs,

Louis B. Kelley,

John Corbett,

F. D. Marshall,

Trustees.”

Evidence was admitted by the court below, over the plaintiff's objection,…