Correll v. People's Bank of Science Hill

Opinion op the Court by

Judge McCandless

Reversing.

The People’s Bank of Science Hill, Ky., sued David Correll and E. C. Webb to recover upon a note payable to that bank purporting to have been executed by defendants on the 3rd day of March, 1924, and due 4 months thereafter; the amount of the note being stated in •writing as “twelve dollars” and in figures as $1,200.” Defendants demurred to the jurisdiction of the court on the ground that by the provisions of section 3720bl7, Ky. Statutes, the amount stated in writing should control. Pending this demurrer, plaintiff filed an amended petition…