Joest v. Williams

The appellant filed a claim against the estate cf the appellee’s decedent, consisting of a promissory note executed by the deceased to one Hutson, and by him indorsed to the appellant. The note was dated the 9th day of December, 1870, and was payable twenty-seven months after date, and was for two hundred and ten dollars.

The administrator set up as defences to the note, 1. That the note was obtained by fraud and without any consideration. 2. That the same was obtained by fraud, in this, that said note was executed by the deceased when he was so intoxicated as to be wholly ignorant of making…