Farmers State Bank v. Dowler

This is an action on two promissory notes payable on demand, each for $2,000, bearing interest at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum. The Farmers State Bank of Overton, payee, is plaintiff. Ernest Dowler and Swan Johnson, makers, are defendants. They signed the notes, but duress was pleaded as one of the defenses; Upon a trial of the issues the district court directed a verdict in favor of plaintiff, and from a judgment thereon defendants have appealed.

*264One of the assignments of error is that the district court erred in directing a verdict in favor of plaintiff. Should the issue of duress have…