Bostwick Banking Co. v. Arnold

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• the four corners or the face of a note tell the story and the instrument itself is the best evidence of the intent of the parties
• \A court may take judicial notice that the signature of an individual on the face of a note ... is the universal method of signing a contract to assume a personal obligation.\ (citation omitted)
• “A court may take judicial notice that the signature of an individual on the face of a note . . . is the universal method of signing a contract to assume a personal obligation.” (citation omitted)
• “One who executes a note in his own name with nothing on the face of the note showing his agency cannot introduce parol evidence to show that he executed it for a principal, or that the payee knew that he intended to execute it as an agent.”
• “A court may take judicial notice that the signature of an individual on the face of a note, at the bottom on the right, without limiting or descriptive words before or after it, is the universal method of signing a contract to assume a personal obligation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

27 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Bradley v. Romeo
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1986-03-25· cited 49×
• Jackson v. Brinegar, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-02-15· cited 29×
• World Insurance v. Smith
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-05-20· cited 20×
• Southern Oxygen Supply Company v. De Golian
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-04-13· cited 19×
• Kingsberry Homes v. Findley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-10-17· cited 14×
• Marler v. C & S BANK
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-06-09· cited 13×
• Yeomans v. Coleman, Meadows, Pate Drug Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-07-15· cited 11×
• K-Ross Building Supply Center, Inc. v. Winnipesauke Chalets, Inc.
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1981-06-26· cited 9×
• Haas v. Koskey
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-04-22· cited 7×
• Hartkopf v. Heinrich Ad. Berkemann
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-06-27· cited 6×
• AARON v. UNITED HEALTH SERVICES OF GEORGIA, INC., Et Al.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-03-15· cited 6×
• Lesser v. Todd Cigarette Service Co.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1973-01-03· cited 4×
• Slocumb v. Federal Deposit Insurance
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-12-04· cited 3×
• Barnett v. Leasing International, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-10-11· cited 3×
• Rossville Bank v. Southeast Federal Savings Bank
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-07-07· cited 2×
• Avery v. Whitworth
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-01-15· cited 2×
• Myers v. Morgan
  Utah Supreme Court· 1981-02-02· cited 2×
• Phillips v. Hertz Commercial Leasing Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-04-22· cited 2×
• Strickland v. Royal Indemnity Company
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-04-13· cited 1×
• Thomas v. McNeill
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1989-11-22· cited 1×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Coal River Collieries v. Eureka Coal & Wood Co.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1926-03-18· cited 35×
• Hansford v. Freeman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1896-05-04· cited 32×
• Lazarov v. Klyce
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1953-01-15· cited 31×
• Thomas v. Eason
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1952-03-12· cited 26×
• Toon v. McCaw
  Washington Supreme Court· 1913-07-15· cited 23×
• Rawleigh Co. v. Royal
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1923-09-13· cited 13×
• Storrs v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1831-04-15· cited 2×