Meyer v. Guardian Trust Co.

KENYON, Circuit Judge.

Defendant in error brought action in the District Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska, Lincoln Division, upon six promissory notes, aggregating the sum of $10,000, given by H. H. Meyer, Jr., and plaintiff in error, to Wm. C. Merrill, Jr., and by him assigned to defendant in error. . Said notes, while given in Nebraska, were payable at Denver, Colo. The defense thereto was that they were given in place of other notes’ upon which the name of plaintiff in error was forged, and that they were secured bv. duress. The court made certain orders with…