Huston v. Schindler

The complaint, in its substantial allegations, alleges and charges, that on the 4th day of January, 1870, J. C. Fitzgerald and J. F. Burdge forged the name of the appellee to a certain note payable to themselves, one year after date, at the First National Bank of Centerville, Indiana, for the sum of four hundred dollars; that said Fitzgerald and Burdge indorsed said note to the appellant, who was then in possession thereof, and claimed to own the same ; that at the time of the filing of the complaint, the appellant knew such note to be a forgery; that the appellee had demanded of the…