Lawton v. Scott

Plaintiff, as the holder and owner of two promissory notes of defendant, for $300 and $88.13, respectively, dated March 12, 1942, each due 120 days from date, seeks by this suit to recover judgment for the amount of the notes with interest and attorney's fee as therein stipulated, less a credit of $36.20. The notes are made payable to the order of the maker and were by him endorsed in blank.

Defendant resists the suit on the ground that the notes represent amounts advanced to him by plaintiff to enable him to solicit life insurance for the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, of which…