Dugan v. Pettijohn

ASHBURN, J. pro tern *

Plaintiff Dugan sues John E. Pettijohn as administrator of the estate of Louis Luckel, deceased, upon a promissory note made by Luckel on February 9,1950, payable to order of plaintiff on September 1, 1950, in the sum of $24,000. From a judgment for defendant plaintiff appeals. The ease was tried without a jury. It appeared at the trial that plaintiff and Luckel, at the time the note was made and delivered, were engaged in a joint venture of operating the Noah Beery Paradise Trout Club located in the mountains near Palmdale. Luckel owned the land and the original…