Riggle v. Daines Manufacturing Co.

(dissenting) :

This suit is for a balance of $344 on a $1050 note which had been given by the defendant corporation for salary claimed by the plaintiff, and upon which the defendant had paid $700. When suit was brought defendant attempted to trace back through two antecedent transactions to resurrect a defense of usury, which, if it existed, should have been asserted long before. The positions taken by the parties to this controversy are shown by their respective depositions. The trial court was sufficiently apprised of the facts and I think was patently correct in granting judgment for the…