Piper v. Cashell

GILBERT, Circuit Judge, after stating the case as above; delivered the opinion of the court.

Several of the assignments of error may be disposed of upon a consideration of the question whether or not the threat of evicting the plaintiff in error from the possession of the property in controversy as pleaded in the answer constituted such duress or threat as to render voidable the lease ■ which he and Wood took from Rodee and Shaw on Feb- . ruary 1, 1900. The gist of these averments, as they must be construed in view of the uncertainty of some of them, is that Sullivan procured a judgment in the…