Sweazy v. Kammer
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Lee Circuit Cou/rt. Action in equity. The defendant and Eugene Kammer, her husband, executed the following promissory note: “$1,625. Keokuk, Iowa, February 12, 1866. “One year after date we, or either of us,.promise to pay to the order of Caleb Sweazy sixteen hundred and twenty-five dollars, value received, payable at the banking house of Geo. C. Anderson & Co., Keokuk, Iowa, with interest from date at the rate of ten per cent per annum until paid.
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Appeal from Lee Circuit Cou/rt. Action in equity. The defendant and Eugene Kammer, her husband, executed the following promissory note: “$1,625. Keokuk, Iowa, February 12, 1866. “One year after date we, or either of us,.promise to pay to the order of Caleb Sweazy sixteen hundred and twenty-five dollars, value received, payable at the banking house of Geo. C. Anderson & Co., Keokuk, Iowa, with interest from date at the rate of ten per cent per annum until paid. “Eugene Kammer. “N. Kammer.” . The object of this action is to charge the separate estate of the defendant with the payment of said…
1Opinion of the CourtServers, J.
i. husband as surety.’ — The note was given for money loaned Eugene Kammer, and was used in his business operations. No part of it was devoted to the separate use of the defendant, or for the improvement of her separate property. The plaintiff testified that Mr. Kammer asked him for *643.the money and “said that his wife wanted him to borrow it and that she would sign the note with him. I told him I would see about it. Mrs. hammer then spoke to me about it, and requested me to let him have the money and she would sign the note and see that I never lost a cent by him . I had some doubts about his…
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- Rodemeyer v. RodmanSupreme Court of Iowa · 1858
- Patton v. KinsmanSupreme Court of Iowa · 1864
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