Williams v. Dennis

Williams gave to Dennis a check for $63.50 in part payment for certain cattle, and then ordered the bank upon which the check was drawn not to pay it. Dennis brought suit on the check in a justice’s court. The defendant filed a plea denying indebtedness, and further pleaded that plaintiff had damaged him in the sum of $75 because of certain representations made as to the value of the cows. After a verdict for the plaintiff for $30, an appeal to the superior court was entered by the defendant. On the trial in the superior court the defendant admitted “the execution of the check, and assumed…