Fuller v. Claflin
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western.- District of Arkansas.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hunt
delivered the opinion of the court..
This action was brought to recover the amount of two promissory notes of $1,000 each, given by the firm of Fuller & Mc-Kibben to H. B. Claflin & Co., and dated July 1, 1870.
A defence was set up that the execution of, the note's was procured by an agent of the holders, who presented the statement of an account showing a balance of $8,407.78; that, believing the statement to be accurate, the defendants gave the notes in suit and two others, in all equalling the amount claimed by the statement; that the statement was, in fact, false and fraudulent; that due on…
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