State National Bank of Springfield v. Bennett

Appellant sued appellee upon a promissoiy note dated November 8th, 1890, due in one year, executed to Bernard & Hunter, payáble at the Citizens’ State Bank of Noblesville, Ind., the note having been assigned to appellant by indorsement thereon before maturity and for a valuable consideration.

For answer appellee set up:

1st. That the note was given for the right to sell a certain patent fence, and that the affidavit and copy of letters patent, required by section 6054, R. S. 1881, had not been filed in the proper clerk’s office, nor had the words “given for a patent-right” been inserted…