Slocum v. Nelson

This is an appeal from a summary judgment entered pursuant to section 437c of the Code of Civil Procedure.

The complaint is based upon a promissory note for $7,650, dated July 2, 1942. The answer denied every allegation of the complaint and, as separate defenses, pleaded lack of consideration and that the defendant had been forced to sign the note as a compromise of an alleged claim through coercion, intimidation and threat of criminal prosecution. It was alleged that the plaintiff caused a criminal charge to be lodged against defendant; that the defendant had been arrested; that the defendant…