Notti v. Clark

THE HONORABLE JOHN B. McCLERNAN, District Judge,

sitting in place of MR. JUSTICE BOTTOMLY:

This is an appeal by the defendants from a judgment of the district court of Lewis and Clark County, in an action on a promissory note for $1,000, which judgment was for the full amount of the note with interest from January 1, 1951, plus attorney’s fees and court costs.

In 1950 the plaintiff Notti was operating the Bison Bar in Helena while in the process of buying it from Charles and Antonia Fabatz. On January 1, 1951, arrangements were completed for the purchase of Notti’s interest by the defendant,…