Farmers' Exchange Bank v. Altura Gold Mill & Mining Co.

CHIPMAN, C.

Action on promissory note for five hundred dollars, dated July 1, 1895, and payable six months after date, executed by defendant Hutson to defendant the mining company, and sold to plaintiff before its maturity. Plaintiff had judgment, from which defendants Maud and Newman appeal and come here on bill of exceptions. It appears that plaintiffs sent the note to the Orange Growers’ Bank of Riverside for collection; the latter bank subsequently remailed it to plaintiff bank, and it was stolen from the United States postoffice and never after recovered. The form of the note and its…