Colorado National Bank of Denver, a Corporation v. Alfred O. L. Bohm

ORR, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, as plaintiff in the trial court, brought suit to recover an amount allegedly due on a promissory note. Appellee, as defendant in said suit, denied the right to recover on the ground that he received no consideration for executing the note.

The trial court, over the objection of appellant, permitted parol evidence to be introduced to establish lack of consideration. Appellant assigns this as error. We see nothing in this case which would take it out of the general rule that lack of consideration may be pleaded and proved in a suit on a promissory note.

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