Du Bois-Matlack Lumber Co. v. Henry D. Davis Lumber Co.

This is an appeal by the Union National Bank of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, from an order of the circuit court for Multnomah county, affirming the action of its receiver in the disallowance of a claim of the bank upon a promissory note for $11,000, payable to its order and purporting to be the note of the defendant, Henry D. Davis Lumber Company.

The note in question was executed in the name of the Henry D. Davis Lumber Company on February 1, 1932, by Henry D. Davis, its president, and P. H. Fortune, its vice-president, and was a second renewal of another note for the same amount which Davis as…