Riddle v. Backus
Supreme Court of Iowa
Action upon a promissory note, dated at Darien, (N. Y.) Nov. 20, 1865, for ten hundred and forty-seven dollars, payable to Hannah Backus or bearer, five years after date, with use.
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Action upon a promissory note, dated at Darien, (N. Y.) Nov. 20, 1865, for ten hundred and forty-seven dollars, payable to Hannah Backus or bearer, five years after date, with use. The action was commenced October 11, 1871. The answer admits the execution of the note, denies the capacity of plaintiff to sue, and sets up a counter claim for work and labor for seventeen years, from 1830 to 1847 inclusive, in managing a farm, at $150 per year,........................$2,550.00 1852, to removing plaintiff’s intestate to a different farm,....................................... 5 00 1855, to…
1Opinion of the CourtCode, J.
i. evidence: nations. The defendant claims that he was a nejffiew of the payee of the note and that he rendered her the services sued for in his counter claim under the agreement that he was to be paid therefor at her death, she being at the time of the agreement a widow aged about fifty years, and the defendant being then about twenty-one. The testimony is not all before us, in the abstracts upon which the case is submitted, and hence we cannot determine that the verdict is not supported by the evidence.
*832.-.- eon-by úaroi: statute of frauds: *82The testimony was competent and could not be…
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