Miles v. Andrews

This was an action of assumpsit on three promissory notes for $1,000 each, made by appellees to appellants, two of which bore date of October 18, 1886, and were payable respectively in one and two years, and the third of June 20, 1887, at one year, all bearing interest at eight per cent.

The declaration was in three special counts upon said notes respectively, and the trial was had on issues joined, upon two special pleas, viz.: First, that said notes were given without any good and valuable consideration whatever; and second, that they were given only “ for money won by the plaintiffs from…