Bronson v. Brady
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
HEARING on an appeal bj tbe defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense, in an action on a promissory note. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: Appeal from judgment of the supreme court of the District of Columbia.
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HEARING on an appeal bj tbe defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense, in an action on a promissory note. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: Appeal from judgment of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. On February 2, 1906, appellee, Edmund Brady, filed suit at law against appellant, Simon D. Bronson, to recover the sum of $3,000, with interest thereon at 4 per cent per annum until paid, as the owner and holder of a note for that amount made by appellant. To his declaration appellee…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kobe
The case is here submitted, without argument, upon the briefs.
The brief on behalf of appellant assigns as error that “the court erred in holding the affidavit of defense to be insufficient in point of law and granting the motion for judgment,” and, in the argument upon this assignment of error, takes the position that “a maker of a note given by husband to wife, or vice versa, may defeat a recovery against him or her in an action brought by the indorsee or payee on the ground that the note was given to the spouse of the maker, and therefore a nullity.”
The basis of our decision must…
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