Stockhausen v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Webster District Court. — C. G-. Lee, Judge. This is an action at law upon a promissory note. At the close of all the testimony, there was a directed verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtPreston, J.
Plaintiff's action grows out of a certain loan made by the plaintiff in 1904 to the firm of Johnson & Waterbury, livestock dealers, and renewals of the loan by Waterbury in the name of the firm, but at a time when, as the defendant alleges, the firm had been dissolved. There was an attempted dissolution as between the partners after the execution of the note for the loan in question, but no notice of dissolution was given, and the plaintiff had no knowledge thereof. The firm consisted of the defendant, Johnson, and C. D. Waterbury. Plaintiff had sent considerable sums of money to C. D.…
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