Lowe v. Blair

Debt against three defendants on a joint promissory note. As to one of the defendants, the following entry was made on the record: “ It is made known to the satisfaction of the Court, that Samuel Q. Lowe is not found. The other defendants appeared, and pleaded an agreement on the part *of the plaintiffs, not to sue on the note for twenty years from the date of the agreement, which was in 1839. The plea begins in bar, concludes in abatement, and is sworn to. The plaintiffs demurred generally as to a plea in bar; and the defendants joined in demurrer as in bar. The Court sustained the demurrer,…