Bostwick Banking Co. v. Arnold

How courts have described this case

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• 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).