Courtney v. Andrews

The facts of this case are these: On the 13th of January, 1840, Andrews and wife sold, by notarial act, to J. B, *181Taylor and E. Courtney, three lots in the town of Clinton, for the sum of $6000, for which the purchasers gave their three notes for $2000 each, payable in three annual instalments from the first of January, 1840. Those notes were identified with the act of sale.* On the 20th of March ensuing, a certain sale was passed by authentic act from J> B. Taylor to E. Courtney, in which it is declared: “ that for and in consideration of the cancelling of the notes (therein described) given…