Cairo & Vincennes Railroad v. Delap

This was assumpsit, in the Circuit Court of White county, at the April term, 1875, by the plaintiff in error, the Cairo and Yincennes Bailroad Company for the use of Bobert Bell, against the defendants in error, to recover the amount due on the following promissory note, or instrument in writing, signed by defendants:

“$500.00. Indiak Creek, 11 December, 1867,

“ For value received, we promise to pay to the order of the Cairo and Vincennes ¡Railroad Company the sum of five hundred dollars. This note to become due and payable when the track of said railroad shall be laid through White county, and…