Fourth National Bank v. McArthur
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by plaintiff from Rountree, J., at April Term, 1914, of Cum-BERLAND. Tbis is an action upon two promissory notes of $10,000 each, dated 3 and 4 February, 1913, and due respectively at sixty and ninety days after their date. They were signed by J. Sprunt Newton as maker, and apparently indorsed by Adam McArthur, Newton’s brother-in-law, and Mrs. M. C. McArthur, his mother-in-law.
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Appeal by plaintiff from Rountree, J., at April Term, 1914, of Cum-BERLAND. Tbis is an action upon two promissory notes of $10,000 each, dated 3 and 4 February, 1913, and due respectively at sixty and ninety days after their date. They were signed by J. Sprunt Newton as maker, and apparently indorsed by Adam McArthur, Newton’s brother-in-law, and Mrs. M. C. McArthur, his mother-in-law. Judgment by default for want of an answer was taken against J. Sprunt Newton, and the other defendants filed answers denying the genuineness of the indorsements and averring that they never indorsed the said…
1Opinion of the Court
"Walker, J.,
after stating the case: There are many exceptions in the record, thirty-two, we believe. The number could easily be reduced to less formidable proportions, without any sacrifice to the plaintiff, if we desired to do so; but as only two or three of them will be examined, we will not undertake the task of reduction, but may be permitted to suggest that counsel, in preparing assignments of error, would greatly simplify and facilitate the work of this Court if after having had the time and the opportunity to carefully examine their exceptions reserved during the hurry of the trial,…
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