Mower Harwood Creamery & Dairy Supply Co. v. Hill

Some time in 1905, plaintiff undertook to erect and equip a creamery at Lenox, Iowa, in consideration of $4,700 to be paid by forty-seven subscribers in sums of $100 each. It did so, and in this action seeks to enforce payment from defendant, whose name was the twenty-ninth on the list. The defense interposed was that his signature *601was secured by fraud, in that, as is alleged, plaintiff’s agent represented to him that he was procuring names of those who would take stock in a co-operative creamery, and that by signing his name to the paper he incurred no liability whatever unless he…