Muscoda State Bank v. Kolar

Jones, J..

This is an action by a bank claiming to be the holder in due course of a promissory note bearing the defendant’s signature. The defendant claims that he never signed a note and that there was no negligence upon his part in not discovering the fraud by which his signature was obtained to the note in question.

The defendant in March, 1920, contracted to purchase for $450 three sows, from the Pedigree Swine Association, Inc., which were warranted “bred and safe in pig to first class boars.” The portion of the agreement most material was as follows:

“The party of the first part further…