Mechanics' Bank v. Donnell

This was a suit founded on a negotiable promissory note for the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars, made by the defendants W. L. and T. E. Donnell, A. E. Doak and J. D. Donnell, payable to the order of the defendants W. L. and T. E. Donnell, four months after its date. There was no averment of the endorsement and delivery of the note by the payees to the plaintiff, but in lieu thereof, by way of showing the plaintiff’s title, the petition after the usual aver-ments as to the making of the note, proceeds thus: “ That on the same day (the day it was made) the said promissory note was…