Walker v. Arkansas Nat. Bank of Hot Springs
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri; Arba S. Van Valkenburgh, Judge. ■ Action by the Arkansas National Bank of Hot Springs against Margaret E.' Walker. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. This is an action on a promissory note for $3,800, executed by the defendant at Hot Springs, Ark., on January 8, 1916, which sum she promised to pay 60 days after date, at the Arkansas National Bank, in Hot Springs, Ark.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri; Arba S. Van Valkenburgh, Judge. ■ Action by the Arkansas National Bank of Hot Springs against Margaret E.' Walker. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. This is an action on a promissory note for $3,800, executed by the defendant at Hot Springs, Ark., on January 8, 1916, which sum she promised to pay 60 days after date, at the Arkansas National Bank, in Hot Springs, Ark. The note was indorsed by F. P. Walker. Having failed to pay the note, this action was instituted. The answer of the…
1Opinion of the CourtTrieber, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1, 2 ] As the cause of action is based on a promissory note, executed and payable in the state of Arkansas, the laws of that state control. What the law of that state was prior to the enactment of Act of March 19, 1915 (Acts 1915, p. 684), and what it is since the enactment of that act, is stated in the late decision of the Supreme Court of that state in Holland v. Bond, 125 Ark. 526, 189 S. W. 165, as follows:
“Prior to the passage of this act a married woman would not bo liable as surety on a promissory note for her husband because contracts could only be…
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