Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-07-01

by its verdict In faVOr OF the defend
ant and against the plaintiff.
1t is now said that Messrs Buck &
Jorgenson, attorneys for the State
Bank of Buffalo, Mimi, will have re-
course against the Stutsman County
Bank of Courtenay and against Lor-
an Nichols for payment upon the note
which it is alleged the State Bank of
Buffalo had purchased for a valuable
consideration from. the Stutsman
County Bank of Courtenay, as the
finding of the jury pronounced the
note sued upon to bear the hand
writing of some person other than
William Jones.
In the case, of Stutsman County
Bank of Courtenay against William
Jones; a suit on five notes aggregat-
ing $6,S21, which it is contended are
companion notes to the one which the
Stutsman County Bank of Courtenay
sold to the State Bank of Buffalo,
Minnesota, this action was brought
on for trial Monday morning. Mr..
Jones interposed an amended answer,
admitting that there was unpaid
from him on notes which he executed
on December 10, 1913, the sum of
about $500, but denied that he had
executed or signed either of the five
notes which were set forth and de-
scribed in the complaint of the Stuts-
man County Bank of Courtenay
against him. He claimed damages
by reason of the Stutsman County
bank paying out the money belonging
to him for purposes other than he
had ever authorized the bank to do
and for purposes other than he had
directed the bank to do. One is on
claim that the bank had pretended to
pay out $2,170 on note which was
not given by the defendant and with
out his authority. Another claim is
that the bank had pretended to pay
out $479 of Mr.. Jones bank account
for taxes which Mr.. Jones denies that
it did. Another was that the bank
had damaged Mr.. Jones by failing to
make loans which it had agreed to
make for him and to protect him
from other interest and foreclosure
costs and damages in the sum of
some .S4,10O andajnt other claims to
the amount Of $1,4O5, and claiming
that the said bank had paid out with
out his consent, and unlawfully,
moneys to one J. L. Kerr and charged
to the account of Mr.. Jones without
Jones authority and illegally.
The defendant claimed that a few
years ago he was worth some $780,
900, but that through the machina-
ti0ns of the ex-president of the Suits
man County Bank and officers and
employees of that bank, that he is now
financially wrecked and that he is in
debt for practically all that his prop
erty is worth. He also maintains in
his answer that the plaintiff and its
officers during all of 1913 signed de-
fendant's name to checks and Sc
cured defendants name to and signed
without authorization some 100000
in notes and mortgages, and then
without the defendants consent paid
some of the defendants deposit ac-
count upon these illegal notes and
caused the defendant to sell his land
and property at much less than one
half its actual value owing to such
Vaccinations of the bank and it's Of
ficers.
Thorp & Chase, and w. H. Padden
of Courtenay represent the Stutsman
County Bank against William Jones;
the defendant is represented by
Knauf & Knauf. It is said that
much testimony will be offered in the
case when it is reached for trial
which will show up the question of
high finance as exercised on a big
scale in the village Of Courtenay.
When the amended answer in
Stutsman County Bank Y. Jones was
interposed Monday morning, Judge
Coffey announced that he did not
wish to try the case, and that he
would allow the amended answer and
call in some other district Judge of
the state to try the case with jury.
Judge Coffey, until going on the
bench, practiced law in Courtenay,
and owing to his previous knowledge
of matters connected with the litiga-
tion probably felt that the case, in
Justice to all parties, should be heard
by another judge.
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