Court Opinion

ID: 3921974
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 09:48:56.52064+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:25:23.780440
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Our attention has been called to the fact that in our opinion filed in this case a mistake was made in the answer to the question certified. In course of that opinion, we say: "The weight of authority as we think is, however, that when he has shown that he has paid value in the usual course of business and the circumstances attending the transfer cast no suspicion upon the fairness of his intent, he need go no further, and it then devolves upon the defendant to show notice to him in order to defeat a recovery." There is nothing said by us in the discussion to indicate that we intended to hold contrary to the weight of authority, and it is therefore evident that our purpose was to answer that the burden was upon the defendant to show notice when the plaintiff had proved that he procured the paper for value before maturity and under circumstances creating no suspicion of bad faith on his part. The mistake was the mistake of the writer, and it was not discovered by his associates when the opinion was read to them for approval.
It is proper that the mistake should be rectified, and therefore, of our own motion, we order that the specific answer given in our former opinion be set aside, and that in lieu thereof the following answer be certified to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth Supreme Judicial District for their observance: "If the note was procured by fraud, and if the plaintiff proved that Mrs. Eager paid value for the note before its maturity, and if there were no facts in evidence tending to show bad faith in the transaction upon her part, or if the defense arose after the execution of the note, then, in either event, the burden was upon the defendant to show that she had notice of the defense."
Filed November 12, 1900.