Williams v. Rank

Smith, J. —

Debt upon a promissory note for the payment of 100 dollars by the defendant to the plaintiff, dated the 17th of November, 1840, and payable twelve months thereafter. Plea, the general issue, with an agreement that the defendant should be at liberty to give any evidence upon the trial which he might legally give under any special pleas. Finding and judgment for the defendant, from which an appeal was prayed for and granted.

After the plaintiff had given the note in evidence, the defendant proved that, in the year 1840, one Van Doren sold to the defendant, Rank, the right to sell…