Tabler v. Hoult

Litz, President:

This is an action by W. R. Tabler, as receiver of the Monongahela Bank of Fairmont, against Golden M. Hoult on a note for $20,000, dated July 20, 1928, signed by Hoult as maker and payable to the order of the bank six months after date. To the judgment of the circuit court entered upon a verdict in favor of defendant, plaintiff prosecutes this writ of error.

The defendant pleaded the general issue and also filed a special plea substantially averring that the note sued on had been given in continuance of a similar note executed by him January 20, 1926, to cover an indebtedness…