Millett v. Pacific Cider & Vinegar Co.

The plaintiff, Millett, commenced this action in the superior court for Kang county seeking recovery upon a promissory note for the principal sum of one thousand dollars, executed and delivered to him by the defendants, Vinegar Company, Lund-berg, its president, and Ford, its secretary, all executing the note as principals. The trial court, deciding the action to be of equitable cognizance by reason of the nature of the affirmative matters pleaded in the defendants’ answer and cross-complaint and in the plaintiff’s reply thereto, denied the defendants’ demand for a jury trial, proceeded with…