Conover v. Berdine

This was an action to recover the price of a piano sold by the plaintiffs to the defendant, in payment for which the defendant transferred to the plaintiffs, by delivery, the promissory notes of one J. E. Morris, amounting in the aggregate to $549.65, which notes the plaintiffs alleged the defendant falsely and fraudulently represented would be paid at maturity, well knowing at the time that the said Morris, who resided in Atchison county, Kansas, was wholly insolvent, and that said notes were worthless. It was further alleged that plaintiffs accepted said notes in payment, relying upon the…