Henry v. Sneed’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions

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1. ““The bank thus assumed the affirmative of the issue itself had made. How did it support that issue? It should certainly have done so by proof of an equally affirmative character. This it signally failed to do. Thompson does not state that the notes were transferred to the bank prior to maturity. He does not pretend to give the dates when the transfer occurred. He says he has ‘a letter that will tell,’ but he does not produce it, and it is only by circuitous inference and a comparison of dates that the conclusion can be reached that the notes were negotiated while current. This sort of testimony does not meet the exigencies of the rule before mentioned. The bank. was' challenged by its self-raised issue, to give the date when the transfer of the notes occurred, and it should have done so in order to maintain its position of an innocent purchaser.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Guthrie v. Gibson