La Grande National Bank v. Blum
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Union: Morton D. Clifford, Judge. This is an action on a promissory note executed and delivered by Nat Blum and Ben W. Grandy to the La Grande National Bank on February twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, payable three months after date. The complaint is in the usual form.
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Appeal from Union: Morton D. Clifford, Judge. This is an action on a promissory note executed and delivered by Nat Blum and Ben W. Grandy to the La Grande National Bank on February twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, payable three months after date. The complaint is in the usual form. The answer admits the execution and delivery of the note, but, as a defense, avers, in substance, that at the time of such execution the plaintiff was the owner and in possession of two certain promissory notes for six hundred dollars each, on one O. M. Ramsey, which it delivered to defendant Blum for…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Bean.
1. It is contended that the court erred in refusing to direct a verdict in favor of plaintiff at the close of the testimony, on the ground that the evidence for the defendant showed that the agreement set up in the answer was made with the cashier of plaintiff without its authority. It is unnecessary for us to enter into an examination of the power, duty, and authority of the cashier of a bank, to ascertain whether the alleged agreement or contract set up in the answer was within the scope of his agency; for the plaintiff, by bringing this action on the note…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- McClure Bros. v. BriggsSupreme Court of Vermont · 1886
- Scott v. MaierMichigan Supreme Court · 1885
- Rudasill v. . FallsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1885
- Eberts v. SeloverMichigan Supreme Court · 1880
- La Grande National Bank v. BlumOregon Supreme Court · 1894
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