Crawford v. Albany Ice Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Linn : Geo. H. Burnett, Judge. Action by J. A. Crawford against the Albany Ice Company on an alleged promissory note of the corporation. Being nonsuited because the court did not consider the writing as the note of the company, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
1. This is an action upon a promissory note for $255, dated January 24, 1894, payable sis months after date to the order of Charles F. Casey, and alleged to have been made by the defendant corporation, through its president, J. A. Crawford, the plaintiff herein, and J.R. Stockman, its secretary, -and assigned by Casey to the plaintiff. The answer put in issue the allegation in the complaint that the note was made by the defendant, and for an affirmative defense alleged that Crawford and Stockman had no authority from the corporation to sign or deliver the promissory note, or any note, or to…
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