Case ID: iowa_71/html/0581-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Seevers, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Coburn v. The Omega Lodge A. F. & A. M. et al.
    1. Promissory Note: signed by makers as trustees: personal liability. A note which reads, “We promise to pay,” etc., was signed, “0. F. Clark, M. Samuels, Trustees Omega Lodge.” Held that Clark and Samuels were personally liable as makers. (Heffner v. Brownell, 70 Iowa, 591, followed.) ■
    
      Appeal from Fremont Circuit Court.
    
    Monday, March 21.
    Action at law. The facts are stated in the opinion.
    
      Anderson ds Eaton, for appellants.
    
      Stockton <& Keman, for appellee.
   Seevers, J.

This is an action on a promissory note in these words:

“$166.66. Riverton, Iowa, November 10, 1880.
“Four years after date we promise to pay to the order of E. Coburn one hundred and sixty-six 66-100 dollars, value received, with ten per cent interest per annum.
“ O. F. Clark,
“ M. Samuels,'
“ Trustees Omega Lodge.”

In the second count in the petition the plaintiff sought to recover a personal judgment against Clark et al. To such count there was a demurrer, which was overruled, and Clark et al. appeal, and the question we are called on to determine is whether the court erred in so holding. We are unable to see any distinction between this case and Heffner v. Brownell, 70 Iowa, 591, and,.following that case, the result is that-the judgment of the circuit court must be ‘ Affirmed.