Murchie v. Peck Bros. & Co.

This is assumpsit to recover on a promissory note, as follows:

“$1900.

Chicago, March 28, 1893.

“Ninety days after date I promise to pay to the order of Peter Gow the principal sum of $1900 at 1208 Tacoma Building, with interest at seven per cent per annum after maturity-

George L. Murchie,

Janet H. Murchie.”

Indorsed, “Pay to the order of Peck Bros. & Co.— Peter Gow.”

The declaration contained a special count, in part as follows: “For that whereas the said defendants, heretofore, to-wit, on the 28th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, at Chicago,…