Walcott v. Wood

Citations

• 109 Wash. 617
• 187 P. 375
• 1920 Wash. LEXIS 946

Syllabus

<p>Bills and Notes (138, 146)—Actions—Weight oe Evidence— Fraud—Duress. In an action to cancel a note, executed under threat of arrest for theft of defendant’s money, the evidence is insufficient to sustain a counterclaim for the amount of the note, where upon the issue as to its appropriation, plaintiff positively declared her ignorance and there was nothing hut a flimsy showing, consisting mostly of pure suspicion, to indicate that she had taken it.</p>