Robbins v. Cheek

The appellee sued Robbins before a justice of the peace, by filing as a cause of action a note which reads as follows:

“ One day after date I promise to pay to the order of John Cheek the sum of eleven hundred dollars, without regard to valuation or appraisement laws of Indiana, for value received, with ten per cent, interest, this 31st day of May, 1865. Jacob E. Robbins.”

Indorsed, “ Credit by cash eleven hundred dollars, October 15th, 1865.”

The suit was instituted Eebruary 9th, 1869, and on the day of trial the appellant appeared and answered in four paragraphs: first, the general denial;…