Legal Opinion
Fordice v. Scribner
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided October 28, 1886No. 12,644PublishedCited by 2 opinions
From the Floyd Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtZollars, J.
This action by appellant is against Benjamin F. Scribner and the administrator of the estate of Horatio Scribner, deceased.
It is alleged in the complaint, that in 1872 Benjamin F. and Horatio Scribner, by their firm name of Scribner & Son, *86executed to H. N. Devol three promissory notes for the aggregate amount of twelve hundred dollars, which after maturity were assigned to appellant.
The fourth paragraph of answer by the administrator is, in substance, that the payee, Devol, in 1877, and before he had assigned the notes, for a valuable consideration, fully and entirely released and discharged…
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