Johnson County Savings Bank v. Walker
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by the indorsee against the acceptor of four bills of exchange, brought to the District Court of Waterbury and tried to the jury before Peck, Acting-Judge; verdict and judgment for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtRoraback, J.
This cause, on two former trials (79 Conn. 348, 65 Atl. 132, and 80 Conn. 509, 69 Atl. 15), resulted in judgments for the defendant in the District Court of Waterbury.
The bills in question were drawn in favor of an Iowa manufacturing corporation, which had indorsed them to the plaintiff, an Iowa banking corporation. The defendant set up in her answer that the acceptances were procured by fraud, and that the plaintiff had notice of this when it acquired title, and that it paid no consideration for them. These averments were denied by the reply.
The reasons of appeal question the refusal of the…
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