Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1920 — PLAINTIFF WINS IN HARRIS VS. SUTTON [ARTICLE]

PLAINTIFF WINS IN HARRIS VS. SUTTON

The salt oft Roy Harris vs. the E. Grant Sutton estate -was .board by Judge George A. Williams In the Jasper circuit court Wednesday and a decision was rendered in favor of the plaintiff. The suit was on a note for >2BO given by Sutton to Harris. The contention of the defendants was teat the signature was a forget*. z A number of persons, who had been familiar wire the handwriting of Sutton, testified ad to the genuineness of the signature and others testified that they believed the signature was a forgery. Judge Williams decided in favor of ‘ Harris and gave him a judgment for the face of the note and interest, amounting to about >llOO. Notes to this amount, or needy so, which were signed by Harris with Sutton as security, are to be paid out of the above judgment. A peculiar and to us a foobsh provision of the law in a case like this, is the fact that evidence av to value given for the note on wMeh suit is brought is not permissible. ,