Farmers & Traders State Bank of Bonaparte v. First National Bank of Farmington

The essence of the petition of plaintiff is the recovery of a judgment by it as an indorsee and holder of a nonnegotiable certificate of deposit against the maker, the orig-inal defendant. If the genuineness of the signature of the payee-indorser had not been questioned in legal manner, the proferí ad curiam of the certificate by the plaintiff, as indorsee thereof, would have *75been sufficient to establish a prima-facie ease. Stoddard v. Burton, 41 Iowa 582; Bigelow v. Burnham, 90 Iowa 300; American Exp. Co. v. Peoples Sav. Bank, 192 Iowa 366. The impeachment of the indorsement, presently to be…