Wilcox v. Toledo & Ann Arbor R. R.

Plaintiff in error moves for a rehearing. The suit originated in a justice’s court, where defendant in error sued on a promise by plaintiff in error to pay a certain sum of money to the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern P. P. Co. on certain conditions. The plaintiff’s ease was that the payee named in the paper had been thrown into bankruptcy, and the paper had come to the hands of the plaintiff by assignment.

To prove the plaintiff’s case one Crane was called as a witness, who testified without objection that he purchased the paper of E. D Kinne, assignee in bankruptcy of the corporation to which…