DUNCAN v. BLACK

No. 7737.

324 S.W.2d 483 (1959)

E. M. DUNCAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William BLACK and Mary Ellen Black, Defendants-Respondents.

Springfield Court of Appeals. Missouri.

May 15, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Dempster, Daniel S. Norton, Sikeston, for plaintiff-appellant.

Blanton & Blanton, Sikeston, for defendants-respondents.


RUARK, Judge.

This is a suit on a note, but the tentacles of the question reach into the mysteries of cotton acreage allotments. The plaintiff, now appellant, sued the defendants-respondents on a $1,500 note. The note was pleaded in conventional form. The answer was admission of execution but denial of consideration. At trial, which was without jury, the plaintiff offered his note and rested. The defendants, as was their burden, since the note imports a valid consideration...

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