Hammontree v. Moreland

The sole issue in this case, which is a suit by T. H. Moreland against C. T. Hammontree and Mrs. J. J. Gregory, upon two notes signed by the defendants, is whether the defendants, who signed the notes after they had been executed by Seth Gregory, and after they had become due, signed the notes solely in consideration of stopping a criminal prosecution which had been instituted by Moreland, as the payee of the notes, against Seth Gregory, the original maker of the notes, charging Seth Gregory with a violation of sections 67-9906 and 67-9907 of the Code *872of 1933, making it penal for a purchaser…