Mulligan v. Farmers National Bank

Stone, Justice.

After verdict for plaintiff, defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding or, alternatively, for a new trial was denied, and id appeals from the order.

Defendant was incorporated late in 1925 for the purpose of taking over the business of its predecessor, the Farmers National Bank of Alexandria, at the city of Alexandria, in Douglas county. Following example of counsel, we shall refer to the latter as the “of” bank, and to defendant as the “in” bank where not otherwise designated. The contract evidencing the transaction whereby one succeeded the other is much referred to in…