Storts v. George
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Saline Circuit Court. — HoN. Richard Field, Judge. (1) Tbe answer states, and tbe demurrer admits, that tbe items of $299.68 and $218.60, sought to be set off against plaintiff’s demands, were at tbe time of the assignment, due and payable to tbe treasurer and collector of Saline county, respectively.
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Appeal from Saline Circuit Court. — HoN. Richard Field, Judge. (1) Tbe answer states, and tbe demurrer admits, that tbe items of $299.68 and $218.60, sought to be set off against plaintiff’s demands, were at tbe time of the assignment, due and payable to tbe treasurer and collector of Saline county, respectively. Tbis money was on deposit in tbe bank, and, at tbe date of tbe assignment, constituted an existing indebtedness against it, which was then due and could have been sued for and recovered at that time. Defendant, by reason of bis suretyship, was compelled to substitute bis money for…
1Opinion of the CourtBuegess, J.
This is a suit by plaintiff assignee for tbe benefit of creditors of the Citizens’ Stock Bank, a corporation duly organized under tbe laws of this State, against tbe defendant on two notes executed by him to said bank; one for $1,400, dated October J, 1890, upon wbicb there were several credits, and tbe other for $125, dated May 3, 1894, both payable on demand to Joseph Eield cashier of said bank. Tbe assignment was made on tbe seventeenth day of December, 1894.
Plaintiff instituted this suit on tbe twenty-first day of October, 1895. Tbe petition is in tbe usx.al form.
*6Tbe execution of the…
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