Clark v. Dallas Land Co.

The American National Bank of Pensacola, as transferee, instituted suit on a promissory note against E. E. Clark, to recover a stated amount of principal and interest, and attorney’s fees. Clark filed an answer; which, after admitting certain paragraphs of the petition and denying others, set up additionally that the suit was on a series of notes given for the purchase of land, and that the maker was induced to sign the notes hy false representations of the payee, and was thereby defrauded, and that the American National Bank was not the bona fide holder of the note, but was suing merely for…