Plank v. Jackson

This is an action by the appellant against the appellee on several promissory notes executed by the appellee to the appellant.

The complaint is in several paragraphs, each counting on a promissory note. The appellee answered in three paragraphs. The first, payment, the second, want of consideration, and the third that the notes were given for money borrowed to be used by the appellant and appellee, jointly and individually, in gambling contracts, investing in margins on grain, and to make good and pay losses sustained by them jointly and individually, stating fully that the notes were given…