Parker
Miller v. Parker
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Jennings, J.
Plaintiff instituted this action to recover from defendant the sum of $1,090 and interest thereon at the rate of eight per cent per annum from July 1, 1927. The complaint is based on a promissory note which is alleged to have been executed by defendant in the state of Nebraska on July 1, 1924, payable one year after date. The note is set forth in haec verba in the complaint. It is also alleged in the complaint that the payee of the note for a valuable consideration and prior to maturity indorsed and delivered it to plaintiff, who is the owner and holder thereof and that no part of the principal of said note has been paid. It is further alleged that the note constitutes a contract which is governed by the laws of the state of Nebraska and certain statutes of limitation of said state which are applicable to actions founded upon contracts are set forth. To the complaint thus drawn the defendant interposed a' demurrer on the single ground that it “does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action against this defendant”. The demurrer was sustained without leave to amend and judgment was thereupon rendered ordering that the action be dismissed and that defendant recover…