Stevens v. Keegan

*80The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marshall, J.:

In this action the plaintiff seeks to recover $289, the amount alleged to be due on a negotiable promissory note. He recovered judgment for $13.92, and appeals. The note was given by the defendant to the Lyon-Taylor Company, of Iowa City, Iowa, for a piano, a watch, and some silverware, to be distributed as prizes in a scheme for advertising and promoting sales in the business of the defendant, who was a hardware merchant at Axtell, Kan. M. F. Price, of Iowa City, under the trade names of the Lyon-Taylor Company, the Puritan Manufacturing…