German State Bank v. Northwestern Water & Light Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Plymouth District Court. — Hon. F. B. Gaynor, Judge. Plaintiffs bring this action upon two promissory notes, executed by the defendant the Northwestern Water & Light Company. These notes were secured by certain -shares of stock of said water and light company, which were deposited with plaintiff.
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Appeal from Plymouth District Court. — Hon. F. B. Gaynor, Judge. Plaintiffs bring this action upon two promissory notes, executed by the defendant the Northwestern Water & Light Company. These notes were secured by certain -shares of stock of said water and light company, which were deposited with plaintiff. The shares were owned by J. H. Winchell, who, as president of the water and light company, executed the notes, and were by him transferred to plaintiff, as collateral security for the payment of the notes. .The first answer of the water and light company denies a part of the indebtedness…
1Opinion of the CourtWaterman, J.
1 The question to be determined, as we have extracted it from this volume of pleadings and multiplicity of claims, is, in its statement at least, a very simple one. It is this: How far, if at all, is the liability of the water and light company affected by the contract between Winchell and Rogers? The provisions of this contract, so far as are material here, are as follows: “This agreement, made and entered into and executed: in duplicate this seventeenth day of May, A. D. 1894, by and between J. H. Winchell and J. F. Rogers, both of Le Mars, Iowa, witnesseth: First. That the said J. H.…
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