Davis v. Miller
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Jones District Court. — Hon. J. H. Peeston, Judge. Action to recover the amount due on a promissory-note indorsed by the defendant Miller. He filed a motion for a change of the place of trial, which was .-sustained, and an allowance was made in his favor for ■expenses incurred-in attending court in Jones county. ‘The plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, C. J.
1. o°ínnorseríIty tSt!er of pr0' I. The petition in this case was .filed in July, 1891, and alleges the following facts: On the first day of March, 1881, O. L. ma<^e his negotiable promissory note the sum of one hundred and seventy-nine dollars, payable four years •after its date, to the order of Belle Taylor, at Anamosa, Iowa. The payee indorsed the note in blank to the the defendant, and he indorsed it in like manner to the plaintiff. The amount due on the note, and unpaid, is one hundred and sixty-five dollars. On the seventeenth day of December, 1889, the defendant wrote to the plaintiff…
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