Union Bank of Milwaukee v. Commercial Securities Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
'Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county; W. J. TueNee, Circuit Judge. Action to recover on seven promissory notes, aggregating-$6,000, and interest. The complaint contained appropriate-allegations to charge defendants Commercial Securities Company and C. B. Gether as indorsers.
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'Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county; W. J. TueNee, Circuit Judge. Action to recover on seven promissory notes, aggregating-$6,000, and interest. The complaint contained appropriate-allegations to charge defendants Commercial Securities Company and C. B. Gether as indorsers. The notes were dated May 1, 1913, payable four months after date, signed by the defendant Heller Piano Company, payable to the order of the defendant Securities Company at the plaintiff bank, indorsed by sucb company and defendant Gether, and, for value, delivered to sucb bank. They were alike…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed April 11, 1916 :
MaRshall, J.
The first proposition submitted on behalf of appellants which, in an orderly treatment of the case, it seems should be considered, is that questions 1 and 2 of the special verdict should not have been submitted and the findings in respect thereto should not be deemed material, because it is not competent to vary a written contract by parol evidence of what occurred between the parties prior to or contemporaneous with its making, and the law in that respect applies to the contract relations between the payee of a note and one who…
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