Grange Natl. Bank v. Collman

Opinion by

Linn, J.,

This appeal is from judgment for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense in an action on three negotiable promissory notes. The plaintiff is a state bank and avers that it is a holder in due course. The defendant is the maker. They were 90 day notes, made in the fall of 1929 and, in amount, aggregated $2,300. In one, the Annandale Coal Company was the payee and in two of them, the Penn Brook Coal Company. The statement averred, and the affidavit admitted, that the face of each of the three notes was the aggregate of a number of notes which had preceded it, in transactions…