Berry Dry Goods Co. v. Jones

The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court.

The plaintiff, the Berry Dry Goods Company, filed its petition in the district court of Okfuskee county, February 23, 1932, against the defendant, It. B. Jones, upon a promissory note dated November 18, 1926, due one day after date, in the sum of $1,-750; said note bearing a credit of $122.50 under date of April 20, 1927.

The defendant denied the execution of the note under Gath and pleaded further that on December 3, 1926, at the solicitation of the plaintiff and other creditors he made a general common-law assignment to C.…