First National Bank v. Geneseo Town Co.
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Bice District Court. On the 15th of March, 1889, the First National Bank of Emporia brought an action, in the district court of Lyon county, in this state, against the Geneseo Town Company and IT.
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Error from Bice District Court. On the 15th of March, 1889, the First National Bank of Emporia brought an action, in the district court of Lyon county, in this state, against the Geneseo Town Company and IT. C. Cross, upon the following writing: “Salina,-Kas., December 23, 1887. “ J. R. Bell, Esq., treasurer of the Geneseo Town Company : Pay to M. N. Beatty, agent Kansas & Kanopolis Central Railway Company, seventeen hundred dollars ($1,700), being the amount appropriated by our company in aid of the above-named railway. E. C. Molerwell, President. “Attest: S. A. Criffiell, Secretary.” It was…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
This action was commenced by the First National Bank of Emporia, in Lyon county. Service was made upon the defendant H. C. Cross in that county, and service upon the Geneseo Town Company was made upon the president of that company in Barton county. The petition alleged, among other things, that “after the paper (or written order) was indorsed by H. C. Cross, it became, was, and is, and ever since has been, the property of the First National Bank of Emporia, Kas.; that thereafter the paper was duly presented for nonpayment against all the…
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