William Whitman, Inc. v. York

Manifestly, plaintiff’s assignments of error, based upon exceptions, with respect to the issues and to the holding as to the burden of proof, upon the first seven issues, cannot be sustained. Plaintiff’s consent that these issues should be answered by the jury, in accordance with the contentions of defendants, make it unnecessary to consider or to discuss the exceptions upon which these assignments of error are based.

The burden upon the first seven issues, involving exclusively matters alleged in the answer, upon which defendants contend that the notes sued on are invalid, was upon…