Chesney v. Pioneer Sugar Co.

This is an appeal by defendant Burt from a judgment against him and in favor of the plaintiff upon a negotiable promissory note executed by him to the Pioneer Sugar Company, a corporation, by whom the note was indorsed and sold to one Woolley and by Woolley sold and transferred without indorsement to the plaintiff. Both transfers of the note were for value and before maturity. The note in question was one of a large number of notes executed and disposed of in connection with the organization and operations of the Pioneer Sugar Company. The circumstances under which the notes were executed to…