Murphy v. Blair

This Avas a suit in chancery, instituted in March, 1853, by the appellee, who Avas the plaintiff, against the appellants, who were the defendants.

The bill states, inter alia, these facts: The plaintiff was the owner of a tract of land in Jackson county, on which, with her son-in-law, one Felix Cook, she resided. Cook, having in his possession a written instrument for the payment of 1,500 dollars, Avhich he had obtained from plaintiff-by fraud, compelled her, by threatening to take her life in *185case she refused, to execute to him a cognovit founded on the instrument. Upon the cognovit thus…