Meadowcraft v. Walsh
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from First Judicial District, Lewis and Glarhe County. Action upon promissory notes. Judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiffs by Buck, J. Statement of the case by the justice delivering the opinion: Action by plaintiffs to recover amounts due on four promissory notes made by defendant. One note for one hundred and ten dollars, and interest, was made and delivered May 1,1885, to the firm of Jurgens & Price.
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Appeal from First Judicial District, Lewis and Glarhe County. Action upon promissory notes. Judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiffs by Buck, J. Statement of the case by the justice delivering the opinion: Action by plaintiffs to recover amounts due on four promissory notes made by defendant. One note for one hundred and ten dollars, and interest, was made and delivered May 1,1885, to the firm of Jurgens & Price. To escape the statute of limitations plaintiffs plead the payment on said note of twenty-five dollars, made December 8, 1890. Another note made on February 8, 1888, was…
1Opinion of the CourtHuNT, J.
— An attentive examination of the testimony in this record fails to satisfy us that the findings of fact are against the weight of evidence. By the authority of this court they must therefore stand as approved by the trial judge.
The issue of the statute of limitations is at once disposed by the fact that on December 20, 1890, defendant was given a credit of twenty-five dollars, with his consent, on the note of May, 1885.
The assignment for the benefit of creditors, made by Jurgens & Price on June 7, 1889, included “promissory notes, debts, choses in action, etc., belonging to said parties of…
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