Bank of Baraboo v. Laird

Tbe action is upon a negotiable promissory note executed by tbe defendant to a corporation called the Great Lakes Portland Cement 'Company, which note was afterwards purchased by tbe plaintiff. Tbe defense was that the execution of tbe note was induced by fraud, and that tbe plaintiff did not become tbe owner thereof in due course.

Upon tbe trial it appeared that tbe note was a three-months note executed and dated October Í0, 1910, and tbe plaintiff’s cashier testified that tbe same was purchased by tbe bank from tbe agent' of tbe promisee in tbe regular course of business on tbe 18th of…