Hukill v. McGinnis

The defendant in error, as endorsee, sued plaintiff in error as the maker of a promissory note. The answer alleges fraud and want of consideration and charges that the defendant in error had full knowledge of the infirmities of the note at the time he received it from the hands of the payee. It appears that Selvidge, the payee, and one Shubert, sold to the plaintiff in error 1000 acres of oil leases in Texas, for which Hukill executed the note in controversy, making it payable six months after date, with an agreement that the assignment of the leases should be delivered to Hukill on or before…