Vander Ploeg v. Van Zuuk
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Mahaska District Court.— Hon. Byron W. Preston, Judge. Action on a promissory note. Plaintiff appeals from judgment on a directed verdict in favor of the defendants.—
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
The facts, established practically without dispute, are that the note for $2,000, naming the plaintiff as payee, and the two defendants as joint makers with one Pothoven, on which this action is brought, was signed by these two defendants before it was fully completed, being at the time their signatures were affixed thereto a mere blank printed form; that these defendants so signed their names at the request of Pothoven, who was a partner of one of them in a mercantile business, on the representation that he might within a short time find it necessary to raise $150 or $200 for temporary use…
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