Green v. Moss
Appellate Court of Illinois
Bill to Cancel a Promissory Note.—Appeal from the Circuit Court of Marshall County; the Hon. Thomas M. Shaw, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the December term, 1895.
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justoe Hasher
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court ordering the cancellation of a promissory note for $1,295, executed by appellees to appellant, upon the ground that its execution was procured by duress.
The evidence in the record shows that Dawson Moss, a young man who had been engaged in business at Edelstein, in Peoria county, but who had failed, was indebted to appellant in the. sum of $1,295.
After repeated unavailing efforts to have the debt secured, appellant, on the 26th of March, 1895, made complaint before a justice of the peace…
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