Williams v. Buchanan

1. Where officers of court are about to levy a fi. fa. on personalty as the property of A (the defendant in fi. fa.), notwithstanding they are informed by A’s wife and B (A’s son) that the property does not belong to A, but is owned by A’s wife and daughter, and B, to prevent the threatened levy, gives the officers his check in part payment of the fi. fa. against A, and the officers leave without making the levy, but afterwards B stops payment of the check, and, on suit being brought against him upon the check, pleads the foregoing facts a-s a defense, held, that no duress in law is shown.…