LeMoyne v. Braden
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Monona District Court. — Hon. Geokge W. Wakefield, Judge. Action in equity to recover the amount due on account of a promissory note, indorsed by defendant D. W. Braden, and to subject to its payment certain lands claimed by defendant Isaac K. Wood as assignee of Braden. There was a hearing on the merits, and a decree in favor of the assignee. The plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, C. J.
— The parties to this action are nonresidents of the state of Iowa, and at the time the note in suit was given, and for some time thereafter, they were residents of the state of Pennsylvania. The note was given on the nineteenth day of October, 1889, to Braden, for the sum of three thousand dollars. It was payable four months after its date, and was transferred by Braden to the plaintiff by an indorsement in blank. On the twenty-seventh day of November, 1889, *741Braden made a general assignment for the benefit of his creditors to the defendant Wood. At that time Braden was the owner of eighty…
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