Loftin v. Hill.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by S. H. Loftin and others against E. E. Hill, heard by Judge E. W. Timberlake and a jury, at March Term, 1902, of the Superior Court of LbNotb County. From a judgment for the plaintiffs, the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
The plaintiff is the assignee, before maturity, of a plain promissory, note for the amount of $100, payable to W. T1. Magee & Oo. The defendant, the maker, in his defence pleaded fraud in the treaty leading- up to the execution of the note, failure of consideration, equities arising out of a contemporaneous agreement between the maker and the payee, and that the plaintiff had, or ought to have had, notice of all these matters’; and ho further pleaded notice on the assignee’s part that the payees were doing a fraudulent business, and that he had knowledge of such facts, that his action in…
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