Dollner, Potter & Co. v. Snow
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from the Circuit Court for St. Johns county. This is an action brought under the Code of Procedure. There was an answer setting up several distinct defences to the original complaint, and the plaintiffs demurred to each defence, on the ground that it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a defence to the complaint.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for St. Johns county. This is an action brought under the Code of Procedure. There was an answer setting up several distinct defences to the original complaint, and the plaintiffs demurred to each defence, on the ground that it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a defence to the complaint. The Circuit Court sustained some of the demurrers and overruled others, and held, that as the complaint was defective and demurrers reached back to it, it must be amended. The plaintiffs then filed an amended complaint alleging— 1. That the defendant, Frances Snow, is…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Westcott
The basis of this action is the following promissory note:
“ $700.00. St. Augustine, August 3,1869.
Twelve months after date I - promise to pay to the order of Walter Ginnity seven hundred dollars, with interest, value received. Frances Snow.”
This note is endorsed :
■ “ Jennie P. Speab.
Walter Ginnity.”
This action is brought by Dollner, Potter & Co., the en- • dorsees of Walter Ginnity, against Frances Snow as the maker of said note, and her husband Henry M. Snow, and against Jennie P. Spear, the plaintiffs alleging’ that she “ endorsed the note at the time it was made as security thereon and…
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