Klason v. Rieger

This is an action upon two promissory notes made by defendants to plaintiff as part of the agreed price of a span of horses sold, or contracted to be sold, by the latter to the former. One defence is that Rieger, at the time of executing the notes, was an infant. The only testimony in support of this defence is that of Rieger himself, who swears that when he executed the' note he ivas only nineteen years-of age. There is no testimony in the case directly contradicting, or tending to contradict, him in this particular; but, as respects other parts of his testimony, he is contra-*60■dieted as to…