Court Opinion

ID: 7123058
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 12:55:02.080401+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:14:10.348546
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*519The opinion of the court was delivered by
Schoonover, J.:
The record in the case contains the following:
“The plaintiff was given sixty days in which to make and serve a case for the court of appeals, and the defendant ten days thereafter in which to suggest amendments thereto ; said cause to be settled on ten days’ notice.
“ Thereafter, and before the expiration of the sixty days, upon application duly had, said time to make and serve a case for the court of appeals was by the court duly extended to the 1st day of October, 1895.
“Thereafter, and before the 1st day of October, 1895, upon application duly had, said time to make and serve a case for the court of appeals was duly extended to the 1st day of November, 1895.
“Thereafter, oh October 26, 1895, on the request of plaintiff, the following chambers order was made — without any formal application — simply a request by letter:
“ ‘Now, on the 26th day of October, 1895, for good cause shown, the time for making and serving a case for the court of appeals in the above-entitled cause is extended to December 1, 1895.
J. S. West, Judge.'"
Upon this record, the defendant in error filed a motion to dismiss, alleging that there had been no valid extension of time' to any period after November 1, 1895. Section 590, chapter 95, General Statutes of 1897 (Gen. Stat. 1889, ¶ 4650), provides : “ The court or judge may, upon good cause shown, extend the time for making a case . . .” What facts shall constitute “good cause” must be.determined by the court or judge. The showing stated in the record is very meager, and we are doubtful as to its sufficiency, but the order shows-a compliance with the statute. It will, therefore, be presumed that the time was extended “for good cause shown,” although the record *520states that the time for making and serving a case was extended “without any formal application — simply a request by letter.”
This action was commenced by Charles Campbell in the district court of Linn county against EL C. Reese to recover on his statutory liability as a stockholder in the Citizens’ Bank of Mound City. The defendant Reese answered, and alleged that he had paid to bona fide creditors of the bank a sum in excess of his liability as a stockholder.
Plaintiff in error contends that the trial court erred in permitting the defendant to prove payments made on different dates from those alleged in his answer. The payments alleged in the answer to have been made are as-follows : February 6, 1894, to H. E. Burton, $979.46 ; June 23, 1894, to H. A. Strong, $470. The payments proved were made to the same persons, in the same year, but on the 23d day of July. This is not such a variance as will constitute error.
It is further contended that the payments made July 23 are not available as a defense. They were made after the petition had been filed and summons issued, but before service on the defendant. In the absence of actual notice, the. notice imparted by the record is not sufficient to bind the defendant. In the case of Marshall v. Shepard, 23 Kan. 326, the supreme court said:
“The doctrine of lis'pendens applies only in cases w-here the suit is about some specific piece of property, and then only to the extent of preventing a purchaser, pendente lite, from acquiring an interest in the thing in litigation, to the prejudice of the adverse party.”
The last contention of plaintiff in error is that payment by a stockholder, by means of a promissory note, of a claim against the corporation, is not suffi*521cient to relieve the stockholder of his statutory liability. In the case of Howell v. Manglesdorf, 33 Kan. 197, 5 Pac. 761, the court said: “He may also set up as a defense, that he is discharged by having already paid the amount of his individual liability to other creditors of the corporation.”- _ (
Payment, in this connection, cannot be used in its restricted sense ; that is, the discharge in money of a sum due. In this case it is disclosed by the evidence that bona fide claims against the insolven t bank were purchased by defendant in error. A part was paid in cash, and for the balance he gave a promissory note, which was accepted by the creditor as payment. From a careful reading of the evidence, we are satisfied that the whole transaction was for value and done in good faith. We know of no authority that will preclude the pleading and proof of such payment as'a defense.
The judgment of the district court is affirmed.