Trustees of the Baker University v. Farrar

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Sloan, J.:

This was an action to recover on a promissory note. The sole defense was a denial of execution.

Baker university, a Kansas corporation, maintains a college of liberal arts and sciences at Baldwin, Kan., and is supported largely by the income from an endowment fund established by the university from contributions made largely through the Methodist church. In the spring of 1929 it began a campaign for contributions to this fund and received many subscriptions in the same form as the one here under consideration. W. N. Tisdale and the Rev. C. A.…