Smith v. Cohen

For work and labor performed the defendants gave to the plaintiff, a builder, their promissory note in writing, dated September 25, 1929, for $790.85 payable in four months, with interest. Wanting cash badly, the parties met to carry out a new arrangement described by the plaintiff as follows:

“ They told me if I would bring my old note and agree to take one hundred dollars less, I would receive the cash. I was to meet them the next day in Monticello, bringing this old note, which I did. I went to Monticello on the eleventh day of December, nineteen hundred twenty-nine. Mrs. Cohen asked me for…