Crosby v. Ritchey

This was an action upon two promissory notes executed by the defendant in error, Ritchey, for $75 and $37.50 respectively, both payable to the order of A. T. McLaughlin and indorsed in blank by the payee. To the petition, which is in the usual form, the defendant below answered as follows: aThe defendant for answer denies that he is indebted to plaintiff in any sum upon the pretended notes sued on, and avers that such notes were obtained by A. T. McLaughlin, as the president of the Omaha Medical Institute, without consideration and by fraud and false representations, in this, that as such…