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  "name": "Mott v. First National Bank",
  "name_abbreviation": "Mott v. First National Bank",
  "decision_date": "1926-05-10",
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        "text": "McCulloch, C. J.\nAppellee instituted this action against appellant and against John M. Graham as joint makers of a promissory note. Graham defaulted, and judgment was rendered against him. Appellant filed an answer denying that she signed the note set forth in the complaint, and stating further that, \u201cif she did in fact sign said note, it was signed through mistake on her part,\u201d and that she \u201chad no intention of being bound.\u201d Appellant then moved to transfer the cause to equity on the ground that the answer presented an equitable defense. The court overruled the motion to transfer, and the cause proceeded to trial before a jury, resulting in a verdict and judgment in favor of appellee.\nIt is conceded that there was no error in the trial of the cause, and the sole ground urged here for reversal is that the court erred in refusing to transfer the cause to the chancery court.\nOur statute provides that an action properly commenced by proceedings at law shall be transferred to equity on motion by either party for the trial of \u201cany issue which heretofore was exclusively cognizable in chancery,\u201d and that \u201cif all the issues are such as heretofore were cognizable in chancery, though none were exclusively so, the defendant shall have the right to have them all tried as in cases of proceedings in equity.\u201d Crawford & Moses\u2019 Digest, \u00a7 1045. In the case of Horsley v. Hilburn, 44 Ark. 458, this court, in construing the statute, held that the transfer of a case to equity is not imperative except when the answer presents some defense exclusively cognizable in equity,, or when all of the issues are cognizable in equity but not exclusively so. If it be conceded that the statement in the answer with reference to the mistake in the execution of the note and the absence of an intention to become bound was sufficient to constitute a defense at all, it was on.e which was available in an action at law, and was entirely adequate. It was not a defense which was exclusively cognizable in equity, for it could be made at law as well as in equity.\nCounsel for appellant insist that the cancellation of the note was involved, and that this made it an equitable defense exclusively, but we cannot agree with counsel in this contention. The note was the basis of fhe action at law, and was, of course, exhibited with the complaint and introduced in evidence. ' It became a part of the record in this case, and a judgment for the defendant on the issues presented constituted a bar to any future action on the note, and was tantamount to its cancellation.\nThe court was correct therefore in refusing to transfer the cause, and the judgment is affirmed.",
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        "author": "McCulloch, C. J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Killough, Killough & Killough and G. W. Barham, for appellant.",
      "Ogan & Shaver, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Mott v. First National Bank.\nOpinion delivered May 10, 1926.\nTrial \u2014 transfer of action from law to equity. \u2014 In an action at law upon a note an answer by one of the makers alleging that she signed the note through mistake and that she.had no intention of being bound, if sufficient to constitute a defense, did not state a defense exclusively cognizable in equity, and a motion to transfer the action to equity was properly denied.\nAppeal from Cross Circuit Court; G. E. Keck, Judge;\naffirmed.\nKillough, Killough & Killough and G. W. Barham, for appellant.\nOgan & Shaver, for appellee."
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