Gridley v. Bane

This was an action upon a promissory note, purporting to be executed by J. C. Pierson, J. S. Pierson and Samuel T. Bane, jointly and severally, to J. H. Cheney, and indorsed by Cheney to appellant before maturity.

Bane alone was sued; and the only question is, upon the sufficiency of his second plea, a demurrer to which was overruled.

The plea avers that defendant’s signature was obtained by said J. C. Pierson to said note through fraud and circumvention in this: That said J. C. Pierson came to the defendant to get him to sign said note with him, the said J. C. Pierson, and he told and…