Oppenheimer v. Bank

Complainants filed this bill to enjoin the defendant bank from prosecuting three several suits before a Justice of the Peace, for the collection of certain promissory notes. It is charged in the bill that said notes were procured by fraud and are without consideration, and that the bank received the notes from the payees with actual or constructive notice of the fraud. It is further charged said notes were not negotiable, for the reason that each contained a stipulation for the payment of reasonable attorney’s fees, and that said bank is not protected in its title to said notes as an innocent…