Lillyblad v. Sawyer
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by Charles F. Sawyer, one of the defendants, from an order of the Municipal Court of the City of Minneapolis, Stephen Ma-honey, J., denying Ms motion for a new trial. • The plaintiff, Gust Lillyblad, and George W. Turnbull were partners in a supply business in Minneapolis. They borrowed $300 at the Swedish American Bank and gave it their note for the amount. Lillyblad soon after sold his interest in the firm to O. A. Bennett.
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Appeal by Charles F. Sawyer, one of the defendants, from an order of the Municipal Court of the City of Minneapolis, Stephen Ma-honey, J., denying Ms motion for a new trial. • The plaintiff, Gust Lillyblad, and George W. Turnbull were partners in a supply business in Minneapolis. They borrowed $300 at the Swedish American Bank and gave it their note for the amount. Lillyblad soon after sold his interest in the firm to O. A. Bennett. Then Turnbull and Bennett formed a partnership and took the assets and agreed to pay the debts of the old firm. They renewed the note at bank and plaintiff at…
1Opinion of the CourtCanty, J.
This is an action brought on a promissory note made by defendants Sawyer and Turnbull to plaintiff. The defendant Sawyer answered that plaintiff and Turnbull represented to him that they were indebted to the Swedish American Bank in the amount of the note; that he signed the note in question at their request, and for their accommodation, before it was filled up; and *132that they agreed to sign it and fill it np to the bank, and take care of it when due, and that it should be used to take up a note which the bank held against plaintiff and Turnbull.
On a trial before the court without a jury the…
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