Glazier v. Streamer

Streamer sued Glazier, in justice’s court, upon a promissory note, alleged to have been made by the latter to one Johnson, and by him assigned to the former before maturity. Glazier contending, as appears by the evidence, that he never executed the note, and that its execution was obtained by fraud and circumvention, used by Johnson in a patent right transaction, filed in justice’s court what was evidently intended as an affidavit denying the execution of the note sued on; but instead of its being a direct denial, it was in the form of the usual plea of non assumpsit, sworn to be true in…