Majaika v. Jamison

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

This is plaintiff’s appeal from a judgment of no cause of action rendered by the District Court judge, sitting without a jury.

The suit was on two promissory notes made by the defendant May 29th, 1931, given for cash loans by plaintiff to defendant on that date.

At the trial the plaintiff proved the notes and that they were unpaid, and then rested.

The defendant then proved that he was born on August 10th, 1912, and was nineteen years of age when he made the notes. On cross-examination he admitted that he had made no payment thereon and had…