Kipp v. McChesney

This was an action of assumpsit, to recover the amount of a promissory note dated November 4, 1868, made by H. R. Kipp, as president of the Consolidated Minonk Coal Mining Co., for the sum of $129.50, payable six months after its date, to Henry C. Dent or order, with ten per cent interest, and by him indorsed to John M. Davison, and by the latter to Jacob McChesney, the plaintiff in the court below, who there recovered judgment against the defendants, the makers of the note. The defendants bring the record here by writ of error.. The defendants, who were ten in number, and one of whom was the…