Winer v. Bank of Blytheville
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Mississippi Circuit Court; Frank Smith, Judge; STATEMENT by the court. Appellee, who was plaintiff below, instituted this suit against appellants, A. M. Winer and Ike Levine, who were defendants below, upon five promissory notes which had been executed by them to the order of the Archillion Plantation Company.
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Appeal from Mississippi Circuit Court; Frank Smith, Judge; STATEMENT by the court. Appellee, who was plaintiff below, instituted this suit against appellants, A. M. Winer and Ike Levine, who were defendants below, upon five promissory notes which had been executed by them to the order of the Archillion Plantation Company. Within ten days after the execution of these notes, they were duly indorsed by the payee thereof and then transferred to the Mississippi County Bank, and by the latter transferred to the appellee. The notes were executed on February 18, 1904, and were for $100 each, maturing…
1Opinion of the Court
Erauenti-iar, J.,
(after stating the facts.) This suit was originally instituted in the court of a justice of the peace upon five several notes, each of which was for the sum of $100. These notes had come to the appellee by successive transfers from the payee as collateral security for a total indebtedness of $604. It is urged by the appellants that because the amount that was due to appellee from the party who had transferred to it these notes as collateral security was in excess of $300, the justice of the peace did not have jurisdiction. But the causes of action upon which the suit was…
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