Fosdick v. Van Arsdale

This suit .was brought to recover upon a promissory note dated at Alamo, Mich., June 7, 1886, for $110, payable seven months after its date, to plaintiff or bearer, at 10 per. cent, interest. The note was executed jointly and severally by the defendants'as makers.

The defense was that the note was made without any consideration to them, and was given for the sole purpose of procuring the release of one James Wheeler, who was in jail at Paw Paw upon a criminal charge, at the complaint of plaintiff; that the plaintiff obtained the note by fraud; and that he received it for the purpose of…