Kiess v. Baldwin

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (now the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia1) entered upon a verdict directed for the plaintiff (appellee). The suit was upon a promissory note. The defense was absence of consideration.

The plaintiff, receiver of the Commercial National Bank of Washington, D. C., a corporation, declared that the defendant (appellant) on July 11, 1929, signed and delivered to the Bank her promissory note in the sum of $12,352.20, payable on demand, and alleged due…