McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. v. Miller

This was an action by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company upon a written contract executed by the defendants and one George Miller, whereby they promised to pay plaintiff on March 1, 1888, the sum of $802.95, with interest thereon at the rate of eight per cent per annum from December 27, 1884. The execution of the contract is admitted, and the answer sets up that the same was obtained by duress, and that the consideration was the compounding of a felony. These averments were *645put on the issue by the reply. The trial resulted in a verdict for the defendants, and to reverse the judgment…