Compton v. Davidson

Suit by appellees on a note executed to them by appellant. Answer, that said note was obtained by fraud and false and scandalous representations made by one Mary Wallace, and by her attorneys who are the present appellees; that it was alleged, that said Mary was enceinte with a bastard child, and a suit was threatened against him; that said Mary made the proper affidavit before a justice of the peace, and he thereupon executed the said note, but it was understood, that if the child was born too soon, or if the circumstances would not make out a case of bastardy, the note was to be delivered…