Edwards v. Carson Water Co.
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the State of Nevada, Ormsby county. Richard Rising, District Judge. The action was begun by S. C. Wright, but upon his death his executors were substituted as parties plaintiff. The other facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
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Appeal from the District Court of the State of Nevada, Ormsby county. Richard Rising, District Judge. The action was begun by S. C. Wright, but upon his death his executors were substituted as parties plaintiff. The other facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. I. The note sued upon was executed by the president and the secretary of respondent, as had been the custom of respondent, commencing with the note of 1875. The president and the secretary were not only officers of respondent but were also members of and constituted a majority of respondent’s board of trustees. Under such…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Munrare, C. J.:
This is an appeal from an order of the district court granting the respondent’s motion for a new trial. The action was commenced to recover the sum of two thousand dollars alleged to be due on a promissory note, which is in words and figures as follows:
“ $2,000.00. Carson City, Nev., December 8, 1886.
One day after date we, or either of us, promise to pay to the order of Sam C. Wright two thousand dollars in gold coin of the United States of America, at their office in Carson, for value received, with interest payable monthly in like gold coin at the rate of one and…
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