Turpin v. Turpin

Judge Buckner,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

On a note, bearing date the 25th day •of December, 1823, by James Turpin, to his father, Hezekiah Turpin, for 373 dollars, payable one day after date; the latter sued and recovered judgment. To be relieved against it, James Turpin filed his bill in chancery, in August 1828, alleging that the note on which the judgment bad been rendered, was drawn by mistake for dollars, when it should have been made payable in notes on the bank of the Commonwealth; and that his father was endeavoring to coorce payment of the judgment, in notes of that bank,…