Whitaker v. Mastin

Defendant in error took judgment by confession against plaintiff in error and one A. B. Batman on April 18,1906, in the Circuit Court of Moultrie county upon a note dated October 16, 1905, for the principal sum of $500. Afterward the judgment was set aside and plaintiff in error permitted to plead to the merits. Plaintiff in error thereupon filed special pleas, in one of which he set up that his signature to the note in question was secured by Batman, who was the principal maker of said note, and one J. M. Wolf, acting in behalf of defendant in error, while plaintiff in error was in such an…