Rivera v. Cappa

This is an appeal upon the judgment-roll alone from a judgment rendered in favor of the defendant in an action upon a promissory note.

The defendant admitted the execution of the note, but pleaded in his answer that "there was no consideration of any kind or nature therefor, . . ." and that at the time of signing said note the defendant was "laboring under great mental excitement, and that the payee therein threatened to blackmail the defendant if he did not sign the same, and that he signed the same through fear of blackmail and by reason of said fear and not otherwise."

The case was tried and…