Moorhead Investment Co. v. Carlson

Action to recover on a note for $4,000 dated December 21, 1921, due in six months, made by the defendants to the First National Bank of Moorhead and assigned by the bank to the plaintiff some years later. A verdict was directed for the defendants, and the plaintiff appeals from the order denying its alternative motion for judgment or a new trial.

A. H. Costain, as receiver of a partnership estate, was the owner of section 28-159-47 in Kittson county. He was a vice president and the managing head of the First National Bank of Moorhead, which as a judgment creditor was interested greatly in the…