Dickson v. Harris
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Washington Cirouit Court. The plaintiff brings this action to recover of the defendant the amount of a promissory note, executed by the defendant to the plaintiff, for the sum of $200, dated December 21, 1870, payable twelve months after date, with interest at eight per. cent, and upon which are several indorsements of credits aggregating $136. The defendant answered, admitting the execution of the note, and alleging that on the day of its execution the…
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Appeal from Washington Cirouit Court. The plaintiff brings this action to recover of the defendant the amount of a promissory note, executed by the defendant to the plaintiff, for the sum of $200, dated December 21, 1870, payable twelve months after date, with interest at eight per. cent, and upon which are several indorsements of credits aggregating $136. The defendant answered, admitting the execution of the note, and alleging that on the day of its execution the plaintiff, on his own motion, gave the defendant $200, which he requested the defendant to carry from Ohio to Washington, Iowa,…
1Opinion of the Court
Day, J".
i. pgomispa?oi tofcyaiy tract! ° con I. The execution of the note, and the receipt by the defendant of $200 from the plaintiff, at the time the note was executed, are admitted. The plaintiff’s son is the defendant’s son-in-law. The defendant’s counsel produced the defendant as a witness, and pro*729posed to prove by Mm, that tbe plaintiff, having been informed by the defendant of the plaintiff’s son’s necessities, gave the defendant, at the time of the execution of the note in suit, $200, for which the note was executed, and requested the defendant to apply that amount of money for the…
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