Bowman v. Metzger
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Multnomah: E. D. Shattuck, Judge. This is an action by B. H. Bowman against J. H. and Eliza Metzger to recover upon three promissory notes for one thousand dollars each, all bearing date August eighteenth,' eighteen hundred and ninety-one.
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Appeal from Multnomah: E. D. Shattuck, Judge. This is an action by B. H. Bowman against J. H. and Eliza Metzger to recover upon three promissory notes for one thousand dollars each, all bearing date August eighteenth,' eighteen hundred and ninety-one. On July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one Ezra Durand, president of a certain corporation known as the Durand Organ and Piano Company of Portland, Oregon, pretending to act in behalf of said corporation, entered into an arrangement with the defendant J. H. Metzger whereby he transferred and assigned to him twenty shares of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Woeverton.
Two questions arise upon this record; one relates to *28the instructions of the court to the jury, and the other to the admissibility of the testimony of witnesses S. E. Paddock and J. P. Wilson. Of these in their order.
1. It is settled law that where a party takes a negotiable promissory note before maturity, for a valuable consideration, in' good faith, and without knowledge of any defect of title, he acquires a title valid against all the world. Four things must concur to give him a good and valid title. He must have acquired before due; he must have acted in…
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