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Show f The Ilka icprema court baa just x rendered a dtcisicn which appears to (" give good 3atifacticn throughout the i state because of iu juat.ce. As they do elsewhere, peddlers and trader were in the habit of inducing farmers and unsuspecting persons to sign notes for small aums, which notes were afterwards raised and soU to bank and speculators. Ibe courts have hitherto held that the maker of the notes must pay them in full, thus protecting buyera who might be innocent inno-cent or in collusion with the raiaerj. Toe supreme court reveraes the lower tribunals, and puU upon purchaers the duty of protaclinz themselves in the matter of learning whether the notes are genuine or forced. |