McKay v. Overton

Robertson, Associate Justice.

The appellee, the plaintiff in the court below, declared upon an instrument in writing in the following language: “$2,297. One day after date I promise to pay Jno. F. Overton twenty-two hundred and ninety-seven dollars for value received, with ten per cent, interest from date, for an one-half undivided interest in” certain lands mentioned, and then concluded: “The above note is open for the correction of any errors that may be found in our settlement, on pages 104 and 115, to date, this June 1, 1878. [Signed.] H. J. McKay.”

Upon this instrument was the following…