Cornell v. Johnson

This action was instituted by the plaintiff to recover from the defendants the amount of a promissory note. The defendants interposed separate answers. After a jury had been sworn to try the case and before the taking' of testimony, defendant Christensen moved to amend his answer. In the proposed amendment, he alleged that, if he signed the note, it was not signed by him at the time the note was executed and delivered to the plaintiff by his codefendant, Vernon Johnson, but that it was signed by him six or seven months after the note had been executed and delivered by defendant Johnson to the…