Ingersoll v. Cooper

Cooper, describing himself in his declaration “ as a trustee appointed by the Supreme Court of Indiana to receive and collect the notes given by the purchasers in the Ewing addition of the town of Fort Wayne” sued Ingersoll and others in debt on a promissory note, by which they promised to pay “ John Spencer and Samuel Edsall, trustees appointed by the Allen Circuit Court to lay off into town lots, streets, and alleys, part of the real estate of Alexander Ewing, deceased, or to their successor or successors in said trust, for the use of the heirs of the said Alexander Ewing, the sum of,…