Cadle v. Bland

This is an action on a promissory note given by appellant to appellee, an attorney, for services rendered in a divorce proceeding. The note sued upon was executed in June, 1920. Defendant’s insistence was that the note sued upon was satisfied by the execution of another note executed by defendant and his mother to plaintiff in February, 1921, given in lieu of the note of June, 1920. The burden of proof rested upon defendant to establish this defense that the later note was given in satisfaction and by way of extinguishment of the note upon which the suit was brought. Keel v. Larkin, 72 Ala.…