Griffith v. Arnold Rasmussen

The capacity of the plaintiff as executor and that of the defendant as a partnership are" conceded. The plaintiff’s purported cause of action is predicated upon three principal allegation's: . ' ,(1) That, on March 3, 1921, the defendant-partnership procured the plaintiff’s.decedent, Myrón G. Griffith, “to execute a nóte to E. H. Lougee for $14,500 secured by a mortgage on land of decedent.”(2) “That, on May 3, 1921, Lougee paid defendants $14,500.00 as the proceeds of said loan, with directions to pay the same to said Myron C. Griffith, after satisfying a mortgage of $9,292.25.” ’(3) “That…