Sercer v. Hamilton

Appellees instituted suit in the circuit court of Bradley County against appellant to recover $10,000 on two promissory notes in the sum of $5,000 each, executed by appellant to them in part payment for timber on a certain 520-acre tract of land in said county, and caused an attachment to be issued and levied upon a lot of staves belonging to appellant.

Appellant filed an answer seeking to cancel the notes upon the ground that he was induced to execute them through fraud and misrepresentation of appellees as to the character and location of the timber sold him. The right to attach 'the staves…