Brooks v. Nelson

PRESTON (H. L.), J., pro tem.

This is an appeal by defendants from an order of the trial court refusing to vacate a default judgment and also an appeal from the judgment.

On October 29, 1919, the defendants, for value received, made, executed, and delivered to one W. J. Knapp their promissory note for the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, due one year after date, with interest at the rate of twelve per cent per annum, and secured by an assignment of whatever interest defendant had “as heir at law or legatee in the estate of Adam Ott, deceased.” The note was not paid, and on October 29, 1924,…