Matthiessen v. Duntley

The question involved in this case is the sufficiency of an affidavit of merits filed to a statement of claim in a case of the first class in the municipal court of Chicago. The suit is on a note for $25,000, dated December 2, 1914, due in five years, with interest at six per cent. Defendant in error, as plaintiff therein, filed his statement of claim on this note, and plaintiff in error, as defendant therein, filed an affidavit of merits, stating that he verily believed he had a good defense to the suit upon the merits to the whole of the plaintiff’s demand, and that his defense was: “There…