Nelson v. Jacques

O. H. Nelson, Jr., the appellant, brought suit against Lancelot Jacques, Sr., and Alice B. Jacques, his wife, the appellees, upon a promissory note executed and delivered by them to' Nelson-Bullock-Klingensmith, Inc., for the sum of $8,800, dated March 5th, 1925, payable in three years thereafter, which by assignment became the property of the appellant, who at the time of its execution and at the time of the trial was the president of the Nelson-Bullock-Klingensmith Company.

In addition to the general issue pleas, the appellees filed other pleas by which the defense was made that, in the…