Selby v. McDonald

This case has its beginnings in the dim mists of the past, and comes like an echo from the tomb of King Tut. The interested parties proceeded with their case until a verdict was reached, and then, like Rip Van Winkle, seem to have fallen asleep and fifteen years later appear again upon the scene of combat.

On March 20, 1908, one Finlay McDonald, defendant herein, executed a promissory note in the sum of $2,000, payable on or before March 20, 1910, to M. A. Selby or order. The note was secured by a mortgage upon land in the state of Kansas. Suit was brought on this note April 22, 1910, in the…