Poole v. Beller

Lively, Judo-e:

Plaintiff below (and plaintiff in error here) sued defendant, J. E. Beller, as executor- of the estate of S. M. Blake, in assumpsit on a note of $375.00, dated November 4, 1919, at one day after date made payable to her and purported to have been signed by defendant’s decedent, S. M. Blake, as a renewal of note dated November 8, 1910. Defendant interposed the plea of non est factum. On the trial plaintiff testified that she was a stepchild of Mrs. S. M. Blake and had lived with her at Point Pleasant, W. Va., from her early childhood until she was about seventeen years of age,…