Case ID: mo-app_69/html/0635-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bond, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Emily Hooper, Appellant, v. John Rust, Respondent.
    St. Louis Court of Appeals,
    March 9, 1897.
    Promissory Note: plea non est pactum: instructions: verdict. Where the only issue was as to the execution' of the note in suit, and there was no complaint as to the instructions on that issue, the verdict of the jury was conclusive.
    
      
      Appeal from the Texas Circuit Court. — Hon. O. O. Bland, Judge.
    Affirmed; Judge Biggs concurring, Judge Bland not sitting.
    
      Robert Lamar for appellant.
    
      V. M. Hines and L. B. Woodsicle for respondent.
   Bond, J.

This suit is upon a note for $500, alleged to have been made by defendant to the Gossard Investment Company on November 1, 1890, due November 1, 1892, with ten per cent interest, payable semiannually, and assigned for value to plaintiff on the second of February, 1891. The answer denies, under oath, the execution of the note’in suit. There was a judgment for defendant, from which plaintiff appealed.

It is assigned for error that the trial court refused an instruction “that there is no evidence in this case that the Gossard Investment Company or any of its officers had any authority from the plaintiff to collect the note in suit at the time of its alleged payment.’’’ There was no error in this ruling. The issue presented by the answer was as to the execution of the note in suit. It is not claimed that said note was paid. It is averred’ that another note made by defendant’s grantor, James G. White, was paid by defendant, but the defense to the note in suit is solely that it was not the act of defendant, nor signed by his authority.

No complaint being made as to the instructions on the issue of non est factum, the verdict of the jury is conclusive. The judgment will, therefore, be affirmed.

Judge Biggs concurs; Judge Bland not sitting.