Freeny v. Hall

Simmons, Justice.

1. Hall claimed that Hooks offered to negotiate to bim a note-purporting to be signed by one Freeny, payable to Hooks’ wife, for rent, and that he declined to purchase the note until he could see Freeny and ascertain if he had signed it; that shortly thereafter he saw Freeny and asked him if he had signed the note, and *707Freeny replied that he had; that he asked Freeny if it was given for rent, and he replied that it was; and that he (Hall) thereupon purchased the note from Hooks, taking a written assignment of it. The note falling due, Hall, as transferee, had a distress…