Gage v. Vail

This is an action instituted in the Jasper circuit court on a negotiable promissory note executed by defendant and payable to Jane M. Gabor, for $400, on which defendant paid to the payee $200, who afterward, on the 12th day of November, 1877, assigned it to the plaintiff. The answer to the petition was a general denial, and a special defense, the constituent facts of which are that the defendant executed the note to Mrs. Gabor, at the request of E. Gabor, her husband, in payment for some mineral lands; that in August, 1877, the defendant was summoned as garnishee in an attachment suit…