Jones v. Berryhill
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Johnson District Gourt. Patterson made Ms note in New York, dated April, 1866, due in six months, payable to Wesley Jones, or order, for $2,575, with interest at seven per cent. Downey and Buchanan, at the time, indorsed the same by writing their names on the back.
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Appeal from Johnson District Gourt. Patterson made Ms note in New York, dated April, 1866, due in six months, payable to Wesley Jones, or order, for $2,575, with interest at seven per cent. Downey and Buchanan, at the time, indorsed the same by writing their names on the back. Afterward, to wit, in June, 1866, the defendant, Berryhill, indorsed said note in this State in the same manner, and before its maturity it was duly transferred by the payee for value to the plaintiff, Samuel H. Jones. The indorsement, by defendant, is admitted ; but it is alleged to have been without consideration, for…
1Opinion of the CourtWright, J.
The errors assigned, as far as possible or consistent with an intelligent understanding of the case, will be noticed in their order.
I. Those relating to the action of the court in sustaining plaintiff’s motion, for a more specific statement of the fraud alleged in a certain clause of the answer, and sustaining a demurrer to other parts of said answer, need not be specifically noticed, as the same questions are substantially raised by the instructions. If this is not so as to the motion for a more specific statement, then- we only need remark, that the alleged error is not insisted on in…
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