Mantyaja

This is an appeal from a judgment in plaintiff’s favor and from an order denying a new trial.

The complaint is in two counts, the first to recover two hundred and fifty dollars and interest, alleged to have been loaned by plaintiff to John Kuivala, and the second to re- ( cover fifty dollars, the amount of a later loan to him. The I answer of the defendant Kuivala denies the loan sued upon in the first count of the complaint; and, as to the second count, i sets up the defense of want of jurisdiction and misjoinder of causes of action.

The evidence reveals a peculiar and involved state of facts which may be summarized as follows: In April, 1911, one Ina , Wctener, a girl who was engaged to marry John Kuivala, came > to the plaintiff, Anna Mantyaja, and asked her for the loan of two hundred and fifty dollars to help pay for a small house \ to be occupied by her after her marriage. Plaintiff gave her a check for this amount. Ina Wetener then went to plain- ! tiff’s sister, Beda Mantyaja, and borrowed from her two hundred dollars more upon a similar representation. Shortly after the marriage, the plaintiff, being about to go on a visit to Sweden, saw John Kuivala and his wife…