Let this point be reserved, and let the proof proposed be now made, as the plaintiff’s counsel propose to make it.
This was done,; and the defendant then proved that the ob-ligor was so drunk at the time, he could not stand, and did not know what he was about. But it was insisted that dtunkenness aione is no o’jection: the law requires the party tn have been ■drawn in to dnuk, and then imposed upon—3 P. W. 130.
Taylor, Judge. If he was so drunk at the time, that he did not know what he was about; and if in that situation he was induced to sign a paper ior a debt which he did not owe, that was a fraud; and a fraud practised upon a man whe'her drunk orsktet. will vitiate the instrument signed by him.— The jury will consider whether he was so imposed upon or not.
Verdict for the t laintiff; referred to the Supreme-court.