Good v. Singleton
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Last cited by a Minnesota appellate court in 1911, among the opinions in this site’s citation index.
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Cases that cite this one
5 later published cases cite this decision.
- McFadden v. Follrath (Minn. 1911)
- Dille v. White (Iowa 1906)
- Goodall v. Norton (Minn. 1902)
- Estey v. Birnbaum (S.D. 1896)
- First National Bank v. McConnell (Minn. 1908)
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Opinion of the Court
Plaintiffs were entitled to judgment for the amount of their claim. The evidence fails to establish the defendant’s plea of payment. He claims to have paid the amount due by certified check. But the check it appears was returned to him, received, indorsed by him, and collected of the bank. This is the fair inference to be derived from the evidence, in which there is no conflict. He, and not plaintiffs, then, has had the benefit of the check. If he relied upon the circumstance of the delivery of the check as payment, he should have retained and produced it on the trial for the use of the plaintiffs. But the giving of a cheek for the amount of the debt by the debtor to his creditor is not absolute payment, un
Judgment reversed, and ease remanded, with directions to rendef judgment for the plaintiffs.
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