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Mr. Justice Dibell

delivered the opinion of the court.

S. W. Jacobs and John Meredith were partners as Jacobs & Meredith, and they afterwards changed the name of the firm to John Meredith & Company. They had a contract to build a certain railroad for the Illinois & Pox River Central Railroad Company and were to be paid in part by bonds of said company. During said partnership Jacobs gave to the Western Bank Note