Manistee National Bank v. Seymour

This suit is brought to enforce the collection of a promissory note dated April 12, 1884, payable in three months to the order of plaintiff, and signed by the defendant. The plea was the general issue, and notice that the ■note was void, it having been obtained without consideration, :and under an express promise from the plaintiff that it should not be enforced; that the money mentioned in said note was advanced by the plaintiff to one H. C. Tallman, and security taken therefor in the name of the defendant at the especial instance of, and for the sole benefit of, plaintiff, and with the…