McFarland v. Sikes
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action upon a note ; brought to the Superior Court in Tolland County, and tried to the jury before Stoddard, J. Verdict for the plaintiff and appeal by the defendant for error in the charge of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPark, C. J.
This is a suit upon a note of three hundred dollars. On the trial in the court below the defendant offered evidence to prove, and claimed to have proved, that previously to the execution and delivery of the note the plaintiff, who was a grand juror of the town of Ellington, where the defendant resided, and was acting as the attorney of one Mary Quinn, accused the defendant of having made an assault upon the person of the said Mary, and threatened him with a criminal prosecution unless he settled with her for the injury; that the defendant thereupon admitted that he had done wrong in the…
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