Hite v. Hunton

Ryland, Judge,

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.

The plaintiffs filed their petition against the defendant in the Benton Circuit Court. The petition is in the name of Ormsby Hite and Abraham Hite, merchants, trading under the name and style of “ Ormsby Hite & Co.,” plaintiffs, against Felix Hunton, defendant. The plaintiffs state that said defendant, by his promissory note hereto annexed, dated the eighteenth of October, eighteen hundred and forty-three, promised, for value received, to pay the said plaintiffs, by their copartnership name of Ormsby Hite & Co., one day after date, the sum of…