Lucas v. Cole

This suit was on a note of which the following is a copy:

“ St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 27th, 1860.

Six months after date, we, the subscribers, Francis M. Cole and Johnson Dawson of Indian Point, County of St. Clair, State of Missouri, promise to pay to Lucas, Thompson & Co., a firm composed of William Lucas, Charles L. Thompson & John Hicks, Jr., two hundred and eighty-three and seventy-eight hundred dollars for value received, negotiable, and payable without defalcation or discount, with interest at the rate of ten per cent, per annum.

(Signed) t1 F. M. Cole,

John Dawson.”

The defendant, Dawson, denied…