First National Bank v. Hall

This is an action on a negotiable promissory note in the usual form, dated May 4, 1904, for the sum of $126, payable six months after date to the order of F. R. Green, with interest from date at eight per cent. In defense it was set up in a duly verified answer, that defendant did not sign and deliver the note to the payee F. R. Green. In addition to this plea of non est factum, a special defense was pleaded, i. e., that if the signature to the note was defendant’s it was procured by fraudulent means by Green the payee, and by the substitution at the time defendant’s signature was subscribed,…