32 Kan. 142 | Kan. | 1884
The opinion of the court was delivered by
This case was commenced before a justice of the peace of Leavenworth county, to recover upon a promissory note. Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff below —the defendant in error — from which an appeal was taken by the defendant below — the plaintiff in error — to the district court. Trial had in the district court, a jury being waived. The court was requested to find the facts specifically, and state its conclusions of law thereon. This was done. The facts found are these:
“ 1, That before the commencement of this action, and sometime in May, 1883, plaintiff delivered the note sued on in this action to the First National Bank of Leavenworth, Kansas, indorsed as it appears to be with instructions to that bank to collect tire same and apply the proceeds thereof toward payment of certain indebtedness of said plaintiff to said bank, which indebtedness then was and still is more in amount than the amount of said note, and after this action was commenced said note was by said bank redelivered to said plaintiff; and that before the commencement of this action said bank delivered to said plaintiff what it supposed to be a copy of said note and indorsements, with instructions to sue thereon in his own ñame, the 'original- note at that time being in Salt Lake, where it had been by said bank sent for collection, and the same was by said bank sent for, got back and redelivered to said plaintiff after the first continuance of this action.
*144 “2. Which said note and the indorsements thereon is in words and figures following, to wit:
Ԥ110.58. Leavenworth, Has'., Jan. 18th, 1873.
“ Sixty days after date, I promise to pay to the order of George L. Hathaway one hundred and ten dollars, with ten per cent, interest per annum from date till paid. Value received. Geo. P. Prescott.’
Indorsements: ‘C. M. Shaw, George L. Hathaway, Thomas Leonard.’
“ 3. That at the time this suit was commenced the plaintiff was the legal owner of said note, and with the consent of the bank had the right to sue for and recover the amount thereof; and that there is now due from the defendant to the plaintiff thereon the sum of $232.60.”
The court, upon the foregoing facts, concluded that the plaintiff was entitled to a judgment against the defendant, George F. Prescott, for the sum of $232.60. Thereupon the defendant moved the court to strike out from the conclusions of fact the third part thereof as therein numbered, and particularly that part thereof which reads: “And that there is now due from the defendant to the plaintiff thereon the sum of $232.60,” upon the ground that the same was not a mere conclusion of fact, but involved respectively conclusions of law. This motion was overruled, and thereupon Prescott moved the court for judgment in his favor, which motion the court also overruled, and then rendered judgment against him for the sum of $232.60. Prescott excepted, and brings the case here.
It is contended upon the findings of fact that the defendant had not the right to maintain his action, as it is alleged that the legal and equitable title of the note sued on was in the First National Bank of Leavenworth when the action was commenced; and it is also contended that upon the whole case the action was barred by the statute of limitations. It appears from the findings that the bank was only authorized to collect the proceeds for the- indorser, and then to apply the same toward payment of certain indebtedness due to it. It does not seem that the bank received or accepted the note as collateral security; therefore the bank was merely the agent of the real owner and indorser, and the latter did not part with his title to the note in delivering it to the bank.
The questions involved in this case are the same as those decided in the case of Geo. F. Prescott v. Thos. Leonard; and therefore the judgment of the district court will be affirmed.