Claflin v. Dawson

In this action, the appellee, Charles J. Dawson, as plaintiff, sued the appellant, as defendant, in the court below, on two promissory notes.

The complaint was in two paragraphs, one counting upon a note for fifty-two dollars and fifty cents, and the other on a note for one hundred and ten dollars and seventy-five cents. Each of the notes was dated March 7th, 1871, was executed by the appellant, was payable—the first in six months, and the second in one year, after its date—to the order of one Henry C. Dawson, and each was 'the property of the appellee, by assignment from said Henry C. Dawson,…