Todman v. Purdy
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Third Judicial District, Washoe County. This action was brought on two promissory notes executed on June 6th, 1864, at Silver City, for five hundred dollars each, drawing three per cent, per month interest, and payable, one in six months, and the other in eight months.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Third Judicial District, Washoe County. This action was brought on two promissory notes executed on June 6th, 1864, at Silver City, for five hundred dollars each, drawing three per cent, per month interest, and payable, one in six months, and the other in eight months. The plaintiff had judgment in the Court below, on June 24th, 1869, for the sum of two thousand seven hundred and eighty-five dollars, certain small offsets having been allowed. , . I. The Court erred in overruling the objection to the question: “ What disposition did you then make of these…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Lewis, C. J.:
Upon the trial of this case it appeared in evidence that in the' month of May, a.d. 1866, the plaintiff, who was the original payee of the no.tes sued on, had indorsed and transferred them to one H. P. Sheldon, whereupon his counsel offered evidence to show that he became the. owner of them by a subsequent transfer to him by Sheldon. This was objected to by counsel for defendant, upon the ground that plaintiff, not having pleaded the indorsement from Sheldon to himself, evidence tending to establish that fact was inadmissible. The Court below overruled the objection…
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