Solomon National Bank v. Birch

*284The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

The Solomon National Bank sued Lester Birch and Dallas U. Birch upon two negotiable notes executed by them to their own order and endorsed by them and by Felix Broeker. The defendants answered setting up that the notes were executed by them for stock in the Okla-Queen Oil Company and were procured from them by fraudulent representations as to its value; and also that the transaction was illegal because the sale was made in violation of the blue-sky law. (Gen. Stat. 1915, §§ 9458-9475.) Both issues were submitted to the jury, together with the…