Reade v. Pacific Supply Ass'n
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Alfred F. Sears, Jr., Judge. Action by E. T. Reade against the Pacific Coast Home Supply Association to recover the sum of $500 on a promissory note alleged to have been executed by the defendant, a private corporation, with interest from November 3, 1898, at the rate of ten per cent per annum, and the sum of $50 as attorney’s fees.
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From Multnomah: Alfred F. Sears, Jr., Judge. Action by E. T. Reade against the Pacific Coast Home Supply Association to recover the sum of $500 on a promissory note alleged to have been executed by the defendant, a private corporation, with interest from November 3, 1898, at the rate of ten per cent per annum, and the sum of $50 as attorney’s fees. The answer denies that the defendant made or delivered said note, or that $50, or any other sum, is reasonable as an attorney’s fee, and contains the following averment: “And for a further and separate answer to the complaint herein defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Moore
1. It is contended by defendant’s counsel that the court erred in failing to find upon material issues and in making findings outside the issues. It is insisted that the material issues upon which no findings of fact were made arose out of the allegation that the instrument sued on was made by certain officers of the defendant as a renewal note, to take up one previously given by them in payment of their own personal indebtedness, arising out of the purchase of a patent right; that the defendant’s board of directors never authorized or ratified the execution of either of said notes; that the…
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