Nichols & Shepard Co. v. Hardman

Plaintiff sues for a balance due on three promissory jiotes, executed by defendant for the purchase of a six horse engine and separator. The defense is that the machine was only worth about one fourth of the amount for which the notes were given, and that defendant “being weak in mind and incapable of contracting, or managing or transacting the ordinary affairs of business or judging of the value of property,” was *154overreached and cheated, by the false representations of plaintiff as to the value of said machines, and thus induced to execute the notes in suit. After an ineffectual effort to…