Advance Exchange Bank v. Baldwin

This is a suit on a promissory note instituted by the Commissioner of Finance of the State of Missouri, in charge of the Advance Exchange Bank, which failed March 27, 1927. The petition is in regular form, alleging defendant executed his note of date February 22, 1926, payable to the Advance Exchange Bank, for $2000, upon which was due, after deducting credits, the sum of $1147.85. Defendant, by his answer, admitted the execution of the note, but set up a counterclaim based upon the alleged facts that on October 4, 1926,. his mother, Carrie Pool Baldwin, of Adams county, . Illinois, died…