St. Clair v. Cox
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
This action was brought by the plaintiff in the court below, to recover tbe amount due on two promissory notes of the defendants, each for the sum of f2,500, bearing date on the 2d of August, 1877, and payable five months after date, to the order of the Winthrop Mining Company, at the German National Bank, in Chicago, with interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum.
To the action the defendants set up various defences, and, among others, substantially these: That the consideration of the notes had failed; that they were given, with two others of like tenor and amount, to the Winthrop…
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