Jacobson

This is an action to recover on six promissory notes aggregating the principal sum of $24,000, all signed “King & Company; J. Charles King.” The first of these notes is for $3,000, dated September 7, 1922; the second for $5,000 dated September 22, 1922; the third for $3,000, dated October 25, 1922; the fourth for $5,000, dated December 29, 1922. These four notes are payable to Harry or Millie K. Jacobson. Harry Jacobson died prior to the commencement of the action, and plaintiff, his widow, acquired his interest in the notes. The fifth note is for $4,000, dated October 15, 1923, and is payable to the order of Millie K. Jacobson, and the sixth is for $4,000, dated March 31, 1923, payable to Bertha Kalisky. This last note was assigned to the plaintiff Millie K. Jacobson prior to the commencement of the action.

The case was tried by a jury, which returned a verdict for plaintiff and against each of the defendants George W. Lamb and J. Charles King, individually and as copartners, doing business under the name and style of King & Company, and King & Company, a copartnership, for the face value of the notes sued upon. From the judgment entered upon such verdict this appeal is…