
    First National Bank vs. Lock Stitch Fence Co.
    
      (U. S. Circuit Court, N. D. Ill.)
    
    Bills and Notes — Effect of signing namepn blank before indorsement by payee.
   If a third person puts his name in blank on the back of a promis-sory note at the time it is made and before it is endorsed by the payee, to give the maker credit with the payee he must be considered as a joint maker. As the question is one of general commercial law the Federal court i§ not bound by the course of the judicial decision upon it, even, in the State where the note was executed and made payable. — Chicago - Leg. N. June 13, 1885.  