McCornick and Co. v. Tolmie Bros.

Plaintiff, respondent, brought this action upon a promissory note, and alleged its purchase of the note from one Thomas L. Matkins, who, it alleged, claimed to be the owner of the note. The defendants, after a specific denial sufficient to tender an issue as to the complaint, set up three affirmative defenses, and, as a first paragraph of each, alleged—

“That the promissory note set out in plaintiff’s complaint was executed by the defendants at Shelley, Bingham County, Idaho, and was then and there delivered, endorsed in blank, to the Pingree Sugar Company, as the purchase price of ten shares…