Patterson v. Bank of British Columbia
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Multnomah: Loyal B. Stearns, Judge. This is a suit commenced by T. Patterson November twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, against the Bank of British Columbia, the Portland Smelting and Refining Works, and twenty other defendants, who are styled “note makers,” to obtain an accounting between the plaintiff and defendant the Bank of British Columbia, and to compel said bank to surrender to plaintiff a certain promissory note given by him February…
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Appeal from Multnomah: Loyal B. Stearns, Judge. This is a suit commenced by T. Patterson November twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, against the Bank of British Columbia, the Portland Smelting and Refining Works, and twenty other defendants, who are styled “note makers,” to obtain an accounting between the plaintiff and defendant the Bank of British Columbia, and to compel said bank to surrender to plaintiff a certain promissory note given by him February eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, to the Portland Smelting and Refining Works for the sum of fifty-two hundred and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Wolverton.
Plaintiff’s contention, tersely stated, is that he is an accommodation maker, and as such he executed his note for fifty-two hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty-nine cents to the Portland Smelting and Refining Works, without consideration, for the purpose of giving the smelting company credit with the Bank of British Columbia; that said note having been indorsed to the bank as collateral security for advances made and to be made to the said company upon its checks and overdrafts, he had a legal right to revoke his accommodation contract by notice to the…
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