Newell v. Rosenberg

These actions were tried together. The case of Newell against Rosenberg and Nesson, .begun by *457writ dated June 19, 1930, is an action of contract to recover upon three promissory notes given to the plaintiff by the defendants as part of the consideration for the assignment of a contract for the purchase of land in Florida sold through the plaintiff’s agents. Each note contained a promise to pay a reasonable attorney’s fee. The answer is a general denial, payment, denial of genuineness of the signatures, failure and partial failure of consideration for the notes, that the defendants were…