Blair v. Coffman and Blackburn

sitting alone, delivered the following opinion.

This is an action of covenant ; plea duress, replication and issue. From the record it appears, that the plaintiff offered in evidence. in order to repel the idea of duress, first, an endorsement of a credit on the back of the obligation in the hand writing of the plaintiff ; secondly, evidence of conversation and acts of the defendant Coffman, operating as a confirmation of the original transaction, as it has been insisted.

The counsel for the plaintiff, in the court below, seemed to have urged the reception of evidence as to these after…