Link v. Jackson
Citation | 147 S.W. 1114 |
Parties | LINK v. JACKSON et al. |
Decision Date | 03 June 1912 |
Court | Court of Appeal of Missouri (US) |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Texas County; L. B. Woodside, Judge.
Action by Ivan Link against J. W. Jackson and another. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals. Affirmed.
See, also, 158 Mo. App. 63, 139 S. W. 588.
Lamar, Lamar & Lamar, of Houston, for appellant. Dooley & Hiett and W. E. Barton, all of Houston, for respondents.
Action upon a promissory note executed by defendants to A. H. Willard and by him assigned to plaintiff. The defense was fraud in procuring the note, and against that defense plaintiff asserted that he was an innocent holder for value, without notice. The note was given in payment for an interest in a stallion by defendant Jackson, and the fraud alleged in procuring the note consisted in representations that the horse was a sure foal-getter, which defendants alleged was false; and that, for the purpose of inducing defendant Jackson and others to purchase an interest in the horse, Willard, the payee in the note, and his agents entered into a fraudulent scheme, by which they pretended to have sold certain shares in the horse to certain men of wealth and influence in the community, and had these men give to Willard their checks apparently in payment for these shares, and then Willard and his agents exhibited these checks to defendant and others, and represented that these men had purchased shares in the horse, which was not true; and that the checks were afterwards returned to their makers and never collected. There was a trial by jury, judgment for defendants, and plaintiff has appealed. This is the second appeal in this case. The first is reported in 158 Mo. App. 63, 139 S. W. 588, to...
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