Webster v. Cobb
Illinois Supreme Court
This judgment was rendered by J. M. Wilson, Judge, without the intervention of a jury, at February term, 1856, of the Common Pleas Court. , The plaintiff, in the first count in his declaration, declares upon a promissory note, alleged to have been made by one Henry Fowler, bearing date October 10th, 1852, and alleges that the said Henry Fowler, thereby, three years after the date of said note, for value received, promised to pay one Thomas A. Stewart, or order, ten hundred…
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This judgment was rendered by J. M. Wilson, Judge, without the intervention of a jury, at February term, 1856, of the Common Pleas Court. , The plaintiff, in the first count in his declaration, declares upon a promissory note, alleged to have been made by one Henry Fowler, bearing date October 10th, 1852, and alleges that the said Henry Fowler, thereby, three years after the date of said note, for value received, promised to pay one Thomas A. Stewart, or order, ten hundred and eighty-three dollars, with interest, at bank, “and that the defendant, at the -time of the making of the note and…
1Opinion of the CourtSkinner, J.
This was an action of assumpsit by Cobb against Webster, upon a guaranty of a promissory note, executed by one Fowler to one Stewart, who assigned the same to Cobb. The second count of the declaration alleges the making of the note by Fowler; that Webster, at the same time, and before the delivery thereof to Stewart, in consideration thereof, and that-Stewart would accept the same, did make his promise and guaranty, in writing, on the back thereof, as follows: “ For value received, I do hereby guarantee the payment of the within note when duethe assignment of the note by Stewart to Cobb,,…
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