Willett v. Shepard

Graves, J:

The defendant in error brought his action to recover of plaintiffs in error the amount of a promissory note.

The declaration was on the common counts, and a copy of the note was appended.

It purported to have been given on ten months’ time, and to call for interest from its date at the rate of ten per cent.

The plaintiffs in error pleaded the general issue, and an affidavit denied the execution of the note.

At the trial, on being produced, it appeared to have been drawn by filling up a printed blank, and the printed part called for “ten per cent, interest after due, value received,” but…