McNeill v. Lilly

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

Suit was brought in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by appellee, plaintiff below, on an unindorsed promissory note for $2,000, given by defendants to the plaintiff, dated October 1, 1930. At the conclusion of the evidence, the court, on motion of counsel for the plaintiff, directed the jury to return a verdict in favor of the plaintiff. From the judgment thereon defendants appealed.

It appears that this note was the last one of a series of renewal notes growing out of an original transaction between defendants and one Smith. Smith had secured a…