Butler v. Edgerton

Suit by Edgerton to recover the amount due upon an instrument reading as follows:

“ Tenth Month, 31st, 1857.

This is to certify that we, Nathan George and William Butler, of Wayne county, State of Indiana, having sold to Walter Edgerton, of Henry county, State aforesaid, on the 30th of tenth month, 1854, two five hundred dollars real estate mortgage bonds on the Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Company, drawing 10 per cent, interest per annum, payable half yearly, and due the 1st of May, 1859 (Butler and Meredith, trustees), and at the time entered into an obligation to secure to the said Walter…