Farmers' Bank v. Ewing
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 55—ORDINARY APPEAL FROM SCOTT CIRCUIT COURT. The printed words waiving presentment, protest, and notice were on the back of the note when the appellee assigned it to appellants, and, therefore, he must be held to have made the indorsement subject to the limitations contained in the printed matter. 'The printed words in regard to presentment, &c., were on the back of the note when appellee assigned it, but were not subscribed or regarded as amounting to anything whatever.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Pryor
The appellee, J. R. Ewing, being the holder and payee of a note executed to him by James..H. Jewett and others, negotiable and payable at the-Fayette National Bank, indorsed it for value to the Farmers’ Bank pf Kentucky before its maturity, and when the note became due, the parties failing to pay, the Farmers’ Bank .instituted the present action against the obligors and. .the indorser, alleging that the •appellee, as indorser, had waived notice of dishonor by his indorsement on the note. The indorsement is:
“Pay to Farmers’ Bank of Kentucky, value received.
“J. R. Ewing.”
On the back of the note…
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