Case Name: Keeney v. Chilis
Court: Iowa Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Iowa
Decision Date: 1854
Citations: 4 Greene 416
Docket Number: 
Parties: Keeney v. Chilis.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa
Volume: 4
Pages: 416–417

Head Matter:
Keeney v. Chilis.
Possession of a bond negotiable under the Code, is prima fade evidence of ownership; and if such possession is alledged to be fraudulent, the fací can only be established by evidence.
After a deposition is returned to cotirl, the objection cannot for the first lime be raised, that the questions were leading.
Appeal from Polk District Court.

Opinion:
Opmion by
Hall, J.
Henry Chilis brought his suit against Charles Keeney, upon a note, drawn by defendant to plaintiff, for one hundred dollars. The defendant set up fraud, &c., and states that the note was given by him for a certain bond, executed by defendant and one Walker, to one Hayworth. That plaintiff had the bond in his possession, and fraudulently delivered it to defendant, &c. The court, in effect, charged the jury that Chilis' possession of the bond was prima facie evidence of ownership, and of his right to dispose of it; and that if the defendant denied his right, he must establish the fact of the fraudulent possession, by evidence.
The plaintiff below, also took the deposition of one Smith, a non-resident witness, which was duly returned to the clerk of Polk county district court. Defendant below excepted to the deposition principally on the ground that the questions propounded in the witness wvre leading. Th.:> court overruled Hu; objection.
Baten and Finch, for appellant.
G. G. Wright, for appellee.
The instructions !•/the court are good. The. •nd wad negotiable under otir í'mk-,- and the ¡lile pu-.-od by delivery.
Objections to ques ions a- leading in a d 'position. .-imo too late, after the deposition is ri-iurned inlo court. They should be. made when the deposition is taken.
Decree affirmed.