Baker v. Wood
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO. - - This was a bill filed in the Circuit- Court of the United States.for the District of Colorado on October 23, 1886, by Lucien Baker against E. M. Hulburd, Daniel E. Parks, N. P. Seeley, and Samuel N. Wood, praying that defendants Seeley, Wood, and Parks be restrained from in any manner selling, transferring, or disposing of a certain judgment recovered by Baker against the board of county…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO. - - This was a bill filed in the Circuit- Court of the United States.for the District of Colorado on October 23, 1886, by Lucien Baker against E. M. Hulburd, Daniel E. Parks, N. P. Seeley, and Samuel N. Wood, praying that defendants Seeley, Wood, and Parks be restrained from in any manner selling, transferring, or disposing of a certain judgment recovered by Baker against the board of county commissioners of Lake County, Colorado, and from demanding payment of the same from the board until the final hearing of…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
In King v. Doane, 139 U. S. 166, 173, it was stated. as the general rule that “ if in an action by an indorsee against the maker, a negotiable note is shown to have been obtained by fraud, the presumption, arising merely from the possession of the instrument, that the holder in good faith paid value is so far overcome that he cannot have judgment unless it' appears affirmatively from all the evidence, whether produced by the one side or the other, that he in fact purchased for value,” while if the fact is Established that he did so, “he will be entitled to recover unless it is proved that he…
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