Keller v. Johnson

The appellees, who were the plaintiff's, brought this action against Keller upon four several promissory notes, each for the payment of 180 dollars. The notes bear date April 24, 1854, and are payable at three, six, nine, and twelve months, to the president and directors of the Fort Wayne and Southern Railroad Company, who assigned them to the plaintiffs.

The defendant answered—

1. That he was induced to execute the notes mentioned, &c., by the fraud, covin, and deceit of the railroad company.

2. That the defendant, on, &c., being the owner of real estate in the neighborhood of Brewersville, in…