Legal Opinion

Tourtelot v. Reed

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided November 11, 1895No. Nos. 9530-9531-(83-84)PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Appeals by plaintiff in each of the above-entitled actions from orders of the district court for Hennepin county, Elliott, J., granting the motion of defendant Reed in the first action and of defendant Paulson in the second action for a new trial.

1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.

The questions presented by these appeals are so nearly identical that the two cases can be considered together. The actions were brought by the plaintiff, as receiver of the Chemical National Bank of Chicago, upon negotiable promissory notes executed *385by the defendants, respectively, to one Blethen, and by him indorsed and transferred before maturity to the bank named.

In both cases the substance of the answers was that Blethen informed the defendants that he held $1,000 of the stock of the Bank of New England, which he desired to “carry along” until he could find a purchaser therefor, and…

2Cited by12 opinions

  1. Meyer v. Guardian Trust Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1924
  2. Lundean v. HamiltonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1918
  3. Knowlton v. SchultzNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1897
  4. Rea v. McDonaldSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1897
  5. First National Bank v. PersallSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1910

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