Tier v. Lampson
Supreme Court of Vermont
These actions were all in assumpsit, and were brought respectively upon three promissory notes, which, with the facts in the case, are set forth in the opinion of the court. The causes were referred to' a referee, upon whose report the county court, at the March Term, 1861, Kellogg,'J., presiding, rendered judgment pro forma in each of the cases for the plaintiff for the amount of each note respectively, to which the defendant excepted.
1Opinion of the CourtKellogg, J.
The notes upon which the plaintiff claims to recover in these three suits were executed to him by one Francis Draper in the .name of the defendant, and were respectively^ signed ‘‘Jonas Lampson, by Francis Draper.” One of the notes-is for sixty-eight dollars, dated September 8th, 1854 ; another is for fifty dollars, dated April 7th, 1856, and the other is for twenty-seven dollars, dated August 15th, 1857. It appears *180from the referee’s report that Draper carried on the business of a blast furnace, or of making pig iron from the ore, and also of a store in connection therewith, at Dorset, from…
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