Walker v. Copeland

Defendant, H. J. Copeland, June 18, 1931, signed four promissory notes, each for $2,500, payable one year after date, to the order of Northwestern Quicksilver Company. During the month of August, 1935, the plaintiff in this action, Charles F. Walker, claiming to hold the four notes as assignee of the payee thereof, instituted suit thereon against Mr. Copeland in the superior court for Walla Walla county.

In his answer, defendant admitted that he signed the notes, but by way of an affirmative defense, pleaded, first, that the payee (hereinafter referred to as the Quicksilver Co.) was a…