Union Central Life Insurance v. Flynn

Holt, Justice.

Plaintiff appeals from the order denying its motion in the alternative for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial.

The action is to recover the balance due upon a $15,000 promissory note. Defendant denied that he signed the note as maker and alleged that he signed as witness to his father’s signature. These facts appeared without dispute: In November, 1923, defendant’s father, Lawrence P. Flynn, who was then over 80 years old, requested defendant to assist him in obtaining loans on his two farms in Olmsted county to pay two past due mortgages thereon and other…