People's Bank v. Rockwood
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff, the People’s Bank of Minneapolis, from an ■order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Seagrave Smith, J.’ made June BO, 1894,. granting defendants’ motion for a new trial after verdict for plaintiff. On August 19,1892, S. K. Howes made his promissory note whereby he promised to pay to the order of Edward D. Smith three months thereafter without grace five hundred dollars.
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Appeal by plaintiff, the People’s Bank of Minneapolis, from an ■order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Seagrave Smith, J.’ made June BO, 1894,. granting defendants’ motion for a new trial after verdict for plaintiff. On August 19,1892, S. K. Howes made his promissory note whereby he promised to pay to the order of Edward D. Smith three months thereafter without grace five hundred dollars. Smith then wrote his name across the hack of the note and procured Chelsea D. Rock-wood to do the same under his name. The note was then discounted by the hank. When it fell due it was presented for…
1Opinion of the CourtCanty, J.
The assignments of error are sufficient.
1. The complaint is on a promissory note for $500, made by the defendant Howes to the order of the defendant Smith, and indorsed on the back by Smith and the defendant Rockwood. The name of Rockwood is written under that of Smith, and they both admit in their answers that the defendant Howes and Rockwood signed the note before its delivery for the accommodation of the defendant Smith, who delivered it to plaintiff to secure a claim held against him by it.
Out' of the questions presented is whether Smith and Rockwood are to be held as makers of the note…
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