Plum v. Siekmann

Lightner, District Judge.

This is a suit by Orrin L. Plum against Louis J. Siek*102mann, Waldorf H. Brach and John H. Lohmann upon the indorsement on two promissory notes, one of $2,500 and one of $1,500. Both of these notes were made by a Mr. and Mrs. Hoff to the Conservative Investment Company and the indorsement on each was the same, to wit, “Conservative Inv. Co. by J. H. Lohmann, Sec.,” and both were also indorsed by John H. Lohmann personally. Plaintiff claims that the Conservative Investment Company is a business or Massachusetts trust; that the defendants Louis J. Siekmann, Waldorf H.…