McLeroy v. Duckworth

This action is based upon two promissory notes, payable to plaintiff, their payment is resisted for failure of consideration.

Defendants allege they were given as a part of the pi'icc of a tract of land, known as the J olin B. Eddin’s head right, and the improvement on public land adjacent to the same, npon which improvement there was a gin-houso and mill, and about seventy acres of cleared laud in cultivation ; that this improvement was represented by the plaintiff to be upon public land belonging to the general government ; that the expectation of entering the land upon which tlio…