Bothwell v. Corum’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““To constitute notice of an infirmity in an instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating the same, the person to whom it is negotiated must have actual knowledge of the infirmity or defect, or knowledge’ of such facts that his action in taking the instrument amount to bad faith. Ky. St. Sec. 3720b, sub-sec. 56. The proof in this case fails to come up to either one of these requirements of the statute. There is nothing in the case to show that appellant had actual knowledge of the infirmity or defect, or knowledge of such facts that his action in taking the instruments amounted to bad faith. On the contrary, his evidence, which is unimpeached by that of any other witness or by any circumstances in the case, tends to show that he acquired the drafts before maturity, for value, and without notice of any infirmity therein or defect in the title of the American Jobbing Association, which indorsed, delivered, and sold the drafts to him.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Scandinavian American Bank v. Johnston