Corbett v. . Clute

The plaintiff declared on a note for $275 due 1 January, 1900, and a mortgage to secure the same on the land described in the complaint. The defendant admitted that she executed both the note and the mortgage, and by way of defense alleged that she was never indebted, herself, to the plaintiff in any sum, and that her signature to this instrument was procured by the plaintiff's agent, and at the time she signed the same the said agent said to her in substance that Theodore Clute, the son of the defendant, was indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of $275 and had obtained said amount in goods,…