Perot v. Cooper
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to District Court of .Arapahoe County. This was an action by T. Morris Perot, plaintiff below, against Sarah P. Cooper as administratrix of Isaac Cooper, deceased.
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Error to District Court of .Arapahoe County. This was an action by T. Morris Perot, plaintiff below, against Sarah P. Cooper as administratrix of Isaac Cooper, deceased. The complaint contained two causes of action: The first was founded upon three certain promissory notes executed on September 30, 1882, by Isaac Cooper for the aggregate sum of 120,000 and payable to the order of plaintiff six, nine and twelve months respectively after date, with interest at six per centum per annum after maturity. The second cause of action founded upon a certain written contract between said Cooper and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Elliott
delivered the opinion of the court.-
The principal matters in controversy in this cause having occurred before the death of Isaac Cooper, both parties were placed at a disadvantage in the production of evidence — the defendant bjr the death of her intestate, the plaintiff by force of the statute. See Acts of 1870, p. 63; Mills’ Annotated Statutes, sec. 4816.
It was admitted upon the trial that the consideration for the notes sued on was a loan of $20,000 made by Perot to Isaac Cooper on the day the notes bear date ; and that said loan' was also the consideration for the contract or “ agreement”…
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