Haugens v. Foster

This case involves the validity of a promissory note which included in the principal thereof the sum of $500 which was part of a prior note for $5000, and for which appellee accepted $4500 when the makers procured a new loan from the Federal Land Bank of St. Louis. The cause is here by appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Marshall county in favor of appellee for the amount of the note, except the $500 mentioned. Appellee has assigned a cross-error 'on the failure to include the $500 in the judgment.

The record discloses that on April 25, 1934, Thomas B. Foster and Mary E. Foster, his…