Dean v. Crall

One Samuel W. Bishop executed to the plaintiff two promissory notes for $200 each. To these notes he forged the name of the defendant Crall. For this crime it appears Bishop was convicted, and sent to the penitentiary. Plaintiff and his attorney went one night, about 11 o’clock, to the house of the defendant Orall, and, under threats then made by them, he was induced to pay the notes. Orall afterwards sued plaintiff to recover the money so paid, on the ground that it was obtained from him by duress, and recovered judgment. Plaintiff then asked to have that judgment against him set aside,…