Robinson v. Trustees of Schools T. 4 N. R. 10 W.

Citations

• 66 Ill. 538

Syllabus

<p>Evidence. Where two of the makers of a promissory note to the trustees of schools for money borrowed by them, the note being payable twelve months after date, testified to its-payment to the treasurer one month after its date, he being in a wagon on the public road, and the proof showed that at the time fixed by one of them for the payment, the treasurer was confined to his bed by sickness, and that he was dead some weeks before the time fixed by the other, and tire proof also showing that these makers were at the time pressed for money, and that they gave a mortgage, over two months after the time of the alleged payment, to their surety, to indemnify him against the payment of this and another note: Held, that the jury were justified in finding that the note had not been paid.</p>