Drovers' Deposit National Bank v. Tichenor
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Waukesha county: MaetiN L. LuecK, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from an order overruling a demurrer to the amended complaint in the action.
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Waukesha county: MaetiN L. LuecK, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from an order overruling a demurrer to the amended complaint in the action. The complaint alleged that plaintiff was a national banking corporation doing business at Chicago, Illinois; that the' Tichenor-G-rand Company was a corporation also doing business in the state of Illinois; that the defendants Tichenor, Grand, and Newgass were stockholders in said Tichenor-Grand Company, and that the defendant Tichenor was the president of such company; that on July 27, 1908, one Nicholson…
1Opinion of the CourtBaeNes, J.
The appellant contends that' the agreement sued on is void because it was a promise to pay the debt of another and the writing does not express the consideration therefor and because there was no consideration in fact to support the promise.
The complaint alleges that defendants agreed, in consideration of the plaintiff purchasing the notes referred to in the statement of facts, that they would pay the same at maturity, and that in performance of said agreement and relying on the same and in consideration thereof plaintiff paid $9,983.50 to the Tiehenor-Grand Company for the note involved in…
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