Brown v. Drake

As originally instituted, this was a suit in a justice’s court, brought by the Farmers’ Co-operative Manufacturing Company against W. J. Brown as maker of a promissory note for $100, bearing interest from maturity, in which it was recited that this amount was the maker’s “ subscription to the stock, at par, of said Farmers’ Co-operative Manufacturing Company.” The case was appealed to the superior court, and in that court the action was prosecuted by R. H. Drake, as the duly appointed receiver of that company.

1. As evidence of his right to prosecute this suit, Drake introduced a certified…