Johnson v. Peterson
Johnson v. Peterson
Opinion of the Court
This action was instituted by appellant, as receiver of the First National Bank of Bristol, to recover from respondent the amount appearing to be due under and ¡by virtue of a certain promissory note for $800, alleged! to have been executed and delivered by respondent to the Farmers’ State Bank of Butler on t'he 5th day of August, 1915, and which note had been thereafter assigned and transferred to the said First National Bank of Bristol. The respondent admitted signing, on the 5th day of August, 1915, what she then believed to be a note for $200, and delivered the same to one T. >N. Strandness, cashier of said bank of Butler. Respondent, however, claimed1 that said note was so obtained from her by means of false and fraudulent representations made to her by said T. N. Strandness; that said T. N. Strandness tíren stated to her that one B. had a claim against the estate of her deceased husband, of which estate one T. Strandness, the president of the said bank of Bristol, and father of said T. N. Strandlness, was administrator, and that the funds of said estate were on deposit in t'he said bank of Bristol; that said T. N. Strandness falsely and fraudulently represented to respondent that said claim of B., amounting to $200, had been paid by said T. N. Strandness to avoid trouble with B., and! that said claim had been paid with money of the said bank of Butler, and that it was necessary for
Finding no prejudicial error in the record, the judgment and order appealed from are affirmed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- JOHNSON, Receiver v. PETERSON
- Status
- Published