Coleman v. Cole

This cause was certified to this court by the St. Louis Court of Appeals on the ground that it “involves the construction of the Constitution of the State of Missouri.” The controversy is this: On the twenty-fourth of October, 1892, R. L. McElhaney and N. L. Wickmire, who were respectively the president and secretary of the Davie Mining & Development Company, executed and delivered to the Aurora State Bank, their promissory note for one thousand dollars, payable one hundred and twenty days after date, with interest from maturity at eight per cent per annum. The bank exacted forty dollars,…