Crossan v. May

The appellee, May, as the endorsee of Ransom & Bro., brought this action against James W. Powell, James M. Powell, Elliott Crossan and John .McGeath, upon a promissory note purporting to have been executed "by the persons above named as defendants. The note was payable to “Ransom & Bro. or order, at their office in Hartford City, Indiana,” and it was averred in the complaint that “said office was a regular banking office, doing a banking business under the banking law of the State of Indiana.”

The two Powells made default. Crossan and McGeath each answered separately, stating that each signed…