First Nat. Bank v. Hammer

In this action, commenced March 18, 1925, to recover on the oral promise of defendant to pay, verdict and judgment were for plaintiff, and from the judgment and an order denying a new trial and denying a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, defendant appeals. Plaintiff’s cashier testified that defendant’s son, George, desired to borrow $1,200 to pay interest on a real estate loan, but, as he already owed the bank, they refused! to make the loan, unless he could get his father to' sign the note; thereafter defendant and George came to the cashier's house one evening in the latter…