Bank of Penfield v. Colclough

1. When the case- was before this court on exception to a judgment refusing an interlocutory injunction (Colclough v. Bank of Penfield, 150 Ga. 316, 103 S. E. 489), the following ruling was announced: “ If the fears or affections of a father for his son are wrought upon by threats of a criminal prosecution of the son, and the father is thereby induced and coerced, against his will, to execute his promissory note and a security deed to land in order to prevent such threatened prosecution, there is duress as to the father, even though the threatened prosecution be for a crime which has been…