Newman v. Scofield

On December 31, 1895, Scofield brought suit, in the county court of Houston county, against Newman, upon a promissory note for $102.60 principal, besides interest. The *811defendant filed a plea in which he simply denied that paragraph in the plaintiff’s petition which alleged the indebtedness upon the note and described the note. When the case came on for trial in the county court, he offered an amendment to this plea, in which he alleged that the note was procured from him by the plaintiff by fraud, and set forth the alleged fraudulent representations made to him by the plaintiff which induced…