Love
Love v. Anchor Raisin Vineyard Co.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Searls, J.
This is an action to recover upon a promissory note, made by the corporation defendant August 4, 1892, for $6,261.29, payable one day after date to the order of John Conly, in gold coin, with interest at eight per cent per annum, and indorsed by the payee thereof to plaintiff. Plaintiff had a verdict for $5,532.38, upon which verdict judgment was entered. Defendant appeals from the judgment, and from an order denying its motion for a new trial.
The evidence embodied in the statement on motion for a new trial shows that the note was indorsed to the plaintiff herein after maturity, viz., on October 4, 1893. Plaintiff, in her complaint, admitted the payment of certain sums of money to Conly on account of the note, and at the trial it was shown and admitted that those payments amounted to $1,687.55. They were indorsed upon the note, and tallied with a ledger account of defendant in evidence, in which, under bills payable, the note. was entered as a liability in favor of the payee, Conly, and the several payments credited to defendant in said account on account of money, etc., paid to said Conly. This is all plain and simple, and the verdict of the jury is founded on this basis.…