Meyer v. Graeber
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Douglas District Court. Action to foreclose mortgage. At the April Term 1876, the district court sustained a demurrer to plaintiff’s petition. Meyer, plaintiff below, brings the case here. All necessary facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Yhe opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
This action was brought in the court below to recover an installment of interest alleged to be due upon .a promissory note, and to foreclose a mortgage accompanying said note, and executed to secure the same. The petition .sets out a copy of the note and mortgage, from which it appears that Charles Graeber, one of the defendants, on 18th November 1874, executed his promissory note for $500 in Ihe following words:
*166“Lawrence, Kansas, Nov. 18, 1874.
“Four years after date, for value received, I promise to pay John F. Meyer, or order, the sum…
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