Cox v. Nance

John I. Cox, receiver of the First National-Bank of Elizabethton, instituted this action before a Justice of the Peace of Carter County to recover upon a note in the sum of $750 dated June 30, 1931, bearing the purported signatures of Fred L. Nance and Edna Nance and endorsed by W. L. Hampton. The case was appealed to the Circuit Court of Carter County and there tried before the court and a jury. The defednant Edna Nance interposed a plea of non est factum by which she denied the execution of said note. Fred L. Nance and W. L. Hampton filed a plea of the Statute of Limitations of six years…