Nebraska Mutual Bond Ass'n v. Klee

Kirkpatrick, C.

This action was instituted in the district court for Douglas county by the Nebraska Mutual Bond Association, plaintiff, against Fred Klee, defendant, declaring upon three promissory notes aggregating $88. In his answer, the defendant pleaded that the notes were wholly void, and that their execution had been obtained by duress, in that the plaintiff, through its agents and others, threatened the defendant that, if he did not sign the notes and settle with the plaintiff, on an alleged charge that the 'defendant’s son-in-law, one Charles W. Norton, had embezzled moneys from the…