Dalton v. . Webster

This is an action brought by the plaintiff against the defendant in the superior court of Stokes county, on a note under seal for two thousand dollars, due one day after date, and dated the 6th day of January, 1864, to be paid in the currency of the country. The defendant in his answer relied upon three defences, to wit: 1. That the bond described in the complaint was not his bond. 2. That there was a former judgment duly had upon the merits, in a jus- lice's court in Rockingham county on the 6th day of December, 1873, on the same cause of action and between the same parties. 3. That in an…