Stevens v. Oklahoma Automobile Co.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Garfield County; J. C. Rohberts, Judge. Action by Fred D. Stevens against the Oklahoma Automobile Company and another. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtRainey, J.
This was an action brought by Fred L. Stevens to recover from the Oklahoma Automobile Company on a promissory note. By answer defendants admitted the execution of the note, but alleged that they were induced to sign it and a contract executed at the same time by the fraud of the agents of the Dyon-Taylor Company, the payee in said note. At the trial defendants assumed the burden of proof, and at the conclusion of the evidence the plaintiff moved for a directed verdict. The court denied the motion, refused to submit the case to a jury, directed a verdict for the defendants, dismissed…
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