74 Mo. 101 | Mo. | 1881
This suit was commenced in the Adair county circuit court to recover judgment on a note for $353.20, executed to plaintiff and signed by defendant, “M. S. Montgomery, as administrator, as surviving partner of M. & M.” Defendant in his answer denies that plaintiff was a corporation, denies that defendant executed the note, except as thereinafter stated, and then alleges “ that one Carlis+us H. Marine and this defendant were doing business under the firm name of Montgomery & Marin ej and that said firm had been doing business with Studebaker Bros., and that there was an unsettled account between