Harter v. Johnson

Johnson sued John V. aud James Harter, who were the defendants, upon a promissory note for the payment of $75. The note was executed by the defendants to one Welmet Fruit, who assigned it to the plaintiff.

Defendants answered, that the note was executed to Pruit, the payee therein named, at the request of one Amanda Sloop, in settlement of an affair of bastardy. She, Amanda Sloop, being, at the date of the note, pregnant with a child begotten by the defendant John V. Harter. It is averred that on said settlement, a large sum, viz., $800, was to be paid by John V. Harter, and that James Harter…