6 Kan. App. 374 | Kan. Ct. App. | 1897
This action was brought in the District Court of Ellis County by Charles Howard, plaintiff in error, against I. M. Yost, J. H. Downing, D. C. Nellis, James Reeder, and Simon Motz, the defendants in error, to recover an amount claimed to be due upon two promissory notes given by the defendants to the plaintiff. Several questions were raised upon the trial in the court below, and the matter was submitted to a jury, which found for the defendants. The plaintiff brings the case here for review.
The main question is upon the instructions of the court to the jury, and, as there was such error in these instructions as renders a new trial necessary, this is
The plaintiff was entitled to judgment against such of the defendants as he desired, for any amount actually due and unpaid upon the notes, unless his action was barred by the Statute of Limitations or some other legal defense appeared thereto.
The judgment of the District Court will be reversed -and a new trial ordered.