Hartman Stock Farm v. Henley

The Hartman Stock Farm brought a suit upon a promissory note for $933, attaching to its petition a copy of the note. The defendants filed an answer in which they set up that the note was not binding upon them,' for the reason that an agent of the plaintiff represented to them that in the event that any of the purchasers of a certain horse (which, was the consideration of the note), and especially W. C. Abercrombie, W. J. Camp, and T. S. Abercrombie, should fail or refuse to sign the note with them, the note was to be a nullitjr, and not to be delivered to the plaintiff. The plaintiff demurred…