Studebaker Manufacturing Co. v. Dickson

Norton, J. —

This action was commenced in the Buchanan circuit court by plaintiff, as indorsee of a promissory note given by defendants to one E. M. Wood for $1,250. As a defense, it is set up that the note was given without consideration, and that defendants were induced to execute it, with one other note, in payment for a pretended copyright, falsely and fraudulently represented to be valuable, but which in fact was worthless; that the defendants in giving said notes had been made the victims of a “ confidence game,” practiced by said Wood and his confederates, all of which was known to…