Wimbish v. Wade

Plaintiff sued the drawer of a draft, Joseph J. Wade, and the endorser thereof, Charles E. Percy, after the same had been dishonored by the drawees and duly protested.

The defendant, Percy, pleaded the general issue.

The defendant, Wade, after making a general denial, averred “that the draft sued on was given the payee thereof, Charles E. Percy, on account of certain notes of this respondent in the purchase from him of a certain tract of laud in the parish of West Feliciana. * * That at the time of said sale said Percy was and still is without title to the whole or a portion of said land, and…