Howells State Bank v. Hekrdle

Plaintiff seeks to recover of defendant the sum of $1,600 by virtue of a certain negotiable promissory note, executed and delivered by defendant to one Kunhart, who sold it to plaintiff, and, as plaintiff alleges, in due course before due, without notice of any infirmity in Kunhart’s title, and for a valuable consideration, to-wit, $1,510.

Defendant, to avoid such recovery, after admitting the execution and delivery of the note, alleges that there was fraud in its inception, in that he was the owner of a half section of land in Madison county; that he employed Kunhart to trade such land for a…