United States National Bank v. Crosley
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Madison District Court. — Hon. J. H. Henderson, Judge. Action on a promissory note. There was a judgment for defendants, and the plaintiff appeals.—
1Opinion of the CourtGranger, J.
The note in suit was originally made by the defendants, A. B. Crosley and William Holton, to M. C. Hillan, or bearer, bearing date January 11,1888. On the twenty-seventh of the same month it was transferred by Hillan to C. Danforth, of Winter-set, Iowa, by indorsement, and about December 28, 1888, it was transferred to the plaintiff bank. It is what is usually called a “Bohemian oats note,” and, as between the parties to it, at its inception, it is void. The district court instructed the jury that the plaintiff bank had failed to show, as it' was by law required to do, that it it was a…
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