American National Bank v. Smallhouse
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 21 — Action to Hold Defendants Liable Upon their Indorsement of a Promissory Note. APPEAL FROM WARREN CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Defendants and Plaintiff Appeals. This action was based upon the indorsement by C. G. Small-house of a promissory note for $5,000 payable to appellant bank.
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Case 21 — Action to Hold Defendants Liable Upon their Indorsement of a Promissory Note. APPEAL FROM WARREN CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Defendants and Plaintiff Appeals. This action was based upon the indorsement by C. G. Small-house of a promissory note for $5,000 payable to appellant bank. The note became due June 21, 1900; part of the makers were adjudged bankrupts in December 1900, and the remainder prosecuted to insolvency at the February term, 1901. Appellee admitted the indorsement and pleaded release by appellant’s failure to sue at the November term. In anticipation of this plea…
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Opinion of the court by
JUDGE BURNAM
Reversing.’
This suit was instituted by the American. National Rank of Louisville against the defendant, C. G. Small-house, seeking to hold him liable upon his indorsement of a promissory note for $5,500., payable to the bank, alleg*149ing that a part oí the makers of the note had been adjudged bankrupts in December, 1900, and that the remainder had been prosecuted to insolvency at the February term, 1901,' of the Warren circuit court. The appellee, Smallhouse, in his answer, admitted that he had indorsed the note, but pleaded that he had been released, from all…
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