Piedmont Carolina Ry. Co. v. Shaw
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of North Carolina, at Greensboro; James E. Boyd, Judge. Action by Leslie M. Shaw against the Piedmont Carolina Railway Company and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
[1] The main question to be decided is whether the evidence justified the instruction of the District Judge to the jury to find a verdict for the plaintiff in this suit of Leslie M. Shaw, indorsee, against the Piedmont Carolina Railway Company, maker, and W. P. Snider, T. H. Vanderford, Sr., M. L. Jackson, and Thomas J. Jerome, indorsers of a promissory note given to the Interurban Company for $3,000 on September 21, 1909, due three months after date.
The production of the note by the plaintiff duly indorsed entitled him to recover, unless there was material evidence…
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