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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Corsa and Bull v. Nichols.
    Where fraud and duress is plead in avoidance of a note, a reply that said note was freely given without compulsion; adjudged good, without a traverse of the fraud and duress.
    ActioN upon a note, to which a special plea in bar was put in to avoid the note — that it was obtained by imposition and fraud and by duress by threatening to imprison the defendant in New York.
    To which the plaintiffs replied •— That said note was freely given by the defendant, without any compulsion, etc. but they do not traverse the fraud, nor the duress, which was specially plead; to which a special demurrer was given.
   Judgment — That the replication is insufficient.