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Show START APPEAL IN SUGAR CASE Action Involves Nearly Million Mil-lion Dollars of Farmers' Money SALT LAKES, July 20 To determine whether the Reveral thousand farmers who gave notes totaling approxlmatcly $750,000 to finance the Pioneer Sugar! company can he held responsible fori the instruments which arc aro now In I the hands of third parties, appeal pio ceedings will be begun by I. E. Villey and L. K Nelson, counsel for manyi of the defendants. Announcement of an Intention to ! take the question into the supreme court was made by Mr. Willey yester-day yester-day after Judge L. B. A lght of th Third district court held that holders j of the notes could recover from the j makers Judge Wight granted the motion mo-tion of Attorney ;i D N. Straup and; Joel Xlblcy for a directed verdict int the test case brought by the National Bank of the Bepublic against H. I'rlcoi one of the farmers, to recover $140. I The notes were slgnd in favor of th Bloneer Supnr company, hut were! later transferred to Lrnest R. Wool-. k for stock In the Interstate Sugar company. Mr. Woolej later dispose! of the notes to various banks and Individuals In-dividuals In the lntermountaln country. coun-try. Judge Wight held that the National Bank of the Republic had acquired the note for sufficient consideration without notice of any defect or in-1 flrmlty In the Instrument. He further held the contract under which the note was secured to b alld. and that no frAiid was practiced prac-ticed In the various subsequent transactions trans-actions by which th.- noii came Into the hnndv 0f the National liank of the Republic. |