Hawley Bros. Hardware Co. v. Brownstone
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Fresno County. J. R. Webb, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
CHIPMAN, C.
Action upon certain six promissory notes by verified complaint. A demurrer, on the grounds: (1) of insufficiency of facts, and (2) ambiguity, was overruled. Defendants answered denying that they had not paid the notes in suit, and as a separate defense alleged that prior to the commencement of the action defendants transferred to plaintiff certain promissory notes as collateral security for the indebtedness sued upon; that as to one of said collateral notes, made by one J. S. Branch, for the sum of six hundred and two dollars and forty-two cents “plaintiff neglected and refused to…
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