Christie v. Scott
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Chautauqua district court; Granville P. Aikman, judge. STATEMENT. W. L. Christie sold to Roy Scott at different dates a wagon, a buggy and a cultivator, and, to secure the payment of the purchase-price, took separate promissory notes for the amount of each purchase.
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Error from Chautauqua district court; Granville P. Aikman, judge. STATEMENT. W. L. Christie sold to Roy Scott at different dates a wagon, a buggy and a cultivator, and, to secure the payment of the purchase-price, took separate promissory notes for the amount of each purchase. On the same paper, following the usual form of a promissory note and above the signature thereto, was the following: “The express condition of the sale and purchase of [words describing the particular implement] for which this note is given is such that the right or title or ownership does not pass from W. L. Christie…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Smith, J.:
The defendant moves to dismiss the case here on the ground that there is not one hundred dollars in value involved. To establish this claim he computes the interest on each note from the date of the same to the 13th day of February, 1906, being the day the demurrer was sustained, then adds these amounts together and deducts therefrom the sum of all the partial payments with interest on each payment from the date it was made to February 13, 1906. By this method he finds a balance due on February 13, 1906, of $84.90. This method of computing…
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