#### Mercantile Commercial Bank, appellee, v. Edgar C. Smith and Jacob Handelsman, appellants.

Gen. No. 28,984.

Action upon promissory notes. Judgment for plaintiff. Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Charles A. Williams, Judge, presiding. Heard in the third division of this court for the first district at the October term, 1923.

Affirmed.

Opinion filed June 25, 1924.

Certiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final).

Bernard J. Brown, for appellants; Brown, Alschuler & Reagh, of counsel. West & Eekhart and Funkhouser, Funldiouser & Markel, for appellee; William Rothmann and William L. Bourland, of counsel.

Mr. Justice Thomson

delivered the opinion of the court.