Orr v. Hopkins

The declaration in this case, in addition to the common counts in assumpsit, contains a special count upon a promissory note in the words as follows: “For that whereas the said defendant, heretofore, to-wit, on the first day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, at, to-wit, the city of Saint Louis, Missouri,—that is to say, at, to-wit, the county of Valencia aforesaid, written St. Louis,—made his certain promissory note in writing, bearing date a certain day and year therein mentioned, to-wit, the day and year aforesaid, and thereby then and there…