Broadway Bank of Kansas City v. Stroud
Decision Date | 22 June 1932 |
Docket Number | No. 5091.,5091. |
Citation | 51 S.W.2d 555 |
Parties | BROADWAY BANK OF KANSAS CITY v. STROUD et al. |
Court | Missouri Court of Appeals |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Butler County; Robert I. Cope, Judge.
"Not to be officially published."
Action by the Broadway Bank of Kansas City, against Albert Stroud and others. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
Geo. W. Babcock, of Poplar Bluff, for appellant.
Kearbey & Tedrick, of Poplar Bluff, for respondents.
This is an action on a note dated July 8, 1930, for the sum of $450, due ninety days after date, with interest from date at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, with a provision of 10 per cent. of amount due thereon for attorney's fee if not paid at maturity and if it became necessary to be placed in the hands of an attorney for collection. The note was made payable to T. G. Garrett. The petition alleged that on the 26th day of September, 1930, and before maturity, said note was assigned and delivered to the plaintiff by T. G. Garrett. The petition sought judgment for the full amount of principal and interest with attorney fees.
The answer, verified, denied the execution of the note. A trial was had on July 7, 1931, and under direction of the court a verdict for the defendant was returned by the jury, and judgment entered accordingly. Plaintiff has appealed.
The record in this case is short. After the jury was sworn, the plaintiff offered the note attached to the petition. The following is the record:
The note was then read to the jury. The record shows the following:
It is shown from the foregoing record that the note in question, the execution of...
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...the signature to the bond was the genuine signature of Nye. In any event, it seems to me it was for the jury to say. Broadway Bank v. Stroud, Mo.App., 51 S.W.2d 555; State v. Pace, 269 Mo. 681, 192 S.W. 428, 430. In the last cited case, the Supreme Court of Missouri, in discussing a statute......