Sacred Heart Church Building Committee v. Manson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Cullman County; Robert C. Brickell, Judge. Action by H. T. Manson against the Sacred Heart Church Building Committee and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1DissentSayre, J.
The prevailing
opinion shows the. note in verbis. The most serious insistence of appellants from the beginning has been that the writing on the margin of the note at the top rendered it nonnegotiable. I have been unable to see that the writing referred to, viz., “This note was giv.en to reimburse the German Bank for Cert, of deposit No. 1187 for $5,-000.00, due April 17, 1915,” restrained or qualified the indisputably unconditional contract evidenced by the body of the instrument.
“The true test in every case under the Negotiable Instruments Law, as well as at common law, is whether the general…
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- Post v. Kinzua Hemlock Railway Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1895
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