Reiff v. Nebraska-California Colony Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska; Thomas C. Hunger, Judge. Action at law by the Nebraska-California Colony Company against John B. Reiff. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Per curiam
Defendant in error brought suit in the court below upon two promissory notes executed by plaintiff in error. The defendant. plaintiff in error, in his answer admitted the execution of the notes. As a defense he alleged, in substance, that in July, 1913, one *418H. B. Smith and one C. W. Glough represented to him that they and others were about to organize a corporation under the laws of the state of California for the purpose of buying lands located in that state; that they wanted him to subscribe for stock in the proposed company, because he was influential in the neighborhood where he lived in…
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