Brown v. First Nat. Bank
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This is an action brought by William E. Brown, the plaintiff in error, against the First National Bank of Newton, Kan., to recover $7,500 alleged damages for the wrongful release of a judgment which Brown had pledged to the bank as collateral security for the payment to it of a note for $3,366.75, made by Brown as principal and Cora E. Brown and T. J. Norton as sureties. The court below instructed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant because in an action on the note, which had been brought by the bank, Brown had recouped or set off so much of the damages which…
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