Ladd v. Read

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

The receiver of the Peoples State Bank of Coffey-ville sued F. W. Read upon two promissory notes for the aggregate amount of $5,000. Judgment was rendered for the defendant, and the plaintiff appeals.

*176The questions of law upon which the case turns are raised by various assignments of error. But as under the instructions the verdict necessarily implies a finding (made upon sufficient evidence) of the truth of the defendant’s version of the transaction involved, the case will-be treated, for the sake of simplicity and brevity in statement, as…