Nagle v. Schnadt
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ oE Error to the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of DuPage county; the Hon. L. C. Ruth, Judge, presiding. On October 26, 1905, E. A. Nagle, the plaintiff in. error, filed a claim in the county court of DuPage county against the estate of Henry Schnadt, deceased.
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Writ oE Error to the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of DuPage county; the Hon. L. C. Ruth, Judge, presiding. On October 26, 1905, E. A. Nagle, the plaintiff in. error, filed a claim in the county court of DuPage county against the estate of Henry Schnadt, deceased. The claim was based on a note dated August 12, 1903, for the sum of $3000, with interest thereon from date at the rate of five per cent per annum, payable to the order of F. L. Schnadt two years after date, alleged to have been signed by the deceased and assigned by the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
The presumption is that the plaintiff in error is an innocent purchaser who acquired the promissory note before maturity, The evidence as to the signature was sharply conflicting and seems to have been about evenly balanced. Upon the trial certain non-experts, who testified for defendant in error to the effect that the signature to the note was not that of the deceased, were permitted to state wherein the signature to the note differed from the genuine signature of the deceased. There was no other alleged signature or writing of the deceased in evidence with which the signature to the note…
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