Bank v. Lowther-Kaufman Oil & Coal Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to- Circuit Court, Wetzel County. Action by the First National Bank of New Martinsville against the Lowther-Kaufman Oil & Coal Company and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants F’. W. Clark and J. I. Norris bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, Judge:
Plaintiff brought an action of assumpsit in the circuit court of Wetzel county against the Lowther-Kaufman Oil & Coal Company, a corporation, the maker, and C. F. Lowther, W. R. Fitch, J. I. Norris, Brent Shriver, F. W. 'Clark and J. W. Kaufman, the indorsers of six several negotiable promissory notes aggregatng, exclusive of interest, $38,000.00, and on the 33rd day of July, 1908, recovered a judgment for $39,195.34. To this judgment F. W. Clark and Joseph I. Norris obtained a writ of error from this Court.
The notes were endorsed for the accommodation of the maker. One of…
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