Estes v. Lovering Shoe Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, Lovering Shoe Company, a corporation, from an order of the District Court of Eamsey County, Hascal R. Brill, J.,made May 15, 1894, denying its motion for a new trial. A. J. Moore of Boston, Mass., was a traveling solicitor of advertisements for a boot and shoe journal published at New York. On October 26, 1893, he called on defendant, a shoe merchant of St. Paul, and solicited patronage for the paper.
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Appeal by defendant, Lovering Shoe Company, a corporation, from an order of the District Court of Eamsey County, Hascal R. Brill, J.,made May 15, 1894, denying its motion for a new trial. A. J. Moore of Boston, Mass., was a traveling solicitor of advertisements for a boot and shoe journal published at New York. On October 26, 1893, he called on defendant, a shoe merchant of St. Paul, and solicited patronage for the paper. To accommodate him defendant took his two checks for $100 each on the Manufacturers National Bank of Boston and gave him $50 cash and its two checks, one for $50 and the…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
Plaintiff’s action was to recover the amount of two checks, drawn October 26, 1893, by defendant corporation at its place of business in St. Paul, Minn., upon a local bank, and made payable to the order of one A. J. Moore. The latter, it was claimed, for value received, duly indorsed and delivered them to plaintiff, about five days after they were drawn, at his (plaintiff’s) place of business in Denver, Oolo. Under the direction of the court below, a verdict was returned for plaintiff.
On two points the evidence was conclusive — First, that the cheeks were obtained by Moore by means of false…
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