Seeligson v. Lewis & Williams

Stayton, Associate Justice.

This action was instituted by the appellees to recover the amount of three promissory notes executed to them by the appellant.

The appellant answered by a general denial and by a sworn plea, which was as follows :

“And for farther answer to plaintiffs’ original and first supplemental petitions in the cause filed, this defendant says, that the three notes sued on herein by plaintiffs were not, nor was either of them, executed by the defendant for any consideration, good, valuable or sufficient in law. This defendant avers, that for some time prior to the giving of the…