Brown v. Cow Creek Sheep Co.
Wyoming Supreme Court
ERROR to the District Court, Carbon County; Hon. David H. Craig, Judge. The action was by Ed Brown against the Cow Creek Sheep Company upon a check signed in the name of the company for the sum of $2,500. A general demurrér to the petition was sustained, and the plaintiff elected to stand upon the petition as filed. Judgment was rendered for the defendant for costs. The plaintiff brought error. The material facts are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR to the District Court, Carbon County; Hon. David H. Craig, Judge. The action was by Ed Brown against the Cow Creek Sheep Company upon a check signed in the name of the company for the sum of $2,500. A general demurrér to the petition was sustained, and the plaintiff elected to stand upon the petition as filed. Judgment was rendered for the defendant for costs. The plaintiff brought error. The material facts are stated in the opinion. Under the Negotiable Instruments Act (Comp. Stat. 1910, Secs. 3159, 3161), an indication of a particular fund out of which reimbursement is to be made, or…
1Opinion of the Court
Potter, Justice.
In the District Court a general demurrer to the petition filed in this case was sustained, and an exception was taken to that ruling. Thereupon, the plaintiff not desiring to further plead, but electing to stand lipón the petition as filed, judgment was rendered in favor of the defendant for costs. The plaintiff brings the case here on error, assigning as error the ruling upon the demurrer and' the entering of judgment for the defendant thereon.
The action was brought upon a check by the plaintiff as the payee named therein against the defendant-as the drawer thereof. The…
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