FINDER v. MORRIS MILLER AND COMPANY, INC

NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS, § 289 — burden of proof and presumptions as to consideration. Although promissory notes are presumed to have been issued for valuable consideration to maker, upon evidence being offered tending to overcome this presumption, burden of proof is again cast on plaintiff (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1943, ch. 98, par. 44; Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 89.044).

Opinion by JUSTICE MATCHETT.

Not to be published in full. Opinion filed January 24, 1944; rehearing denied February 8, 1944.