Zuel v. Bowen

This was a suit brought by Thomas Bowen, before a justice of the peace of Grundy county, on a promissory note for $200, -against Archibald Zuel and G. A. Randall. The summons was served on Zuel, but Randall was not found. On the trial before the justice of the peace, Zuel filed this plea:

“And now comes the said Archibald Zuel, one of the said defendants in the above entitled cause, and says ‘that he neither signed or authorized, nor consented to the execution of the said note declared on,’ and of the truth of this, he puts himself upon the country, etc.”

This plea was verified by his…