Gore v. Malsby & Co.

Malsby & Company brought suit against A. E. Gore, in Randolph superior court, upon a promissory note dated February 14, 1898, due December 15, 1898, for $600.00, with interest at 8% per annum from maturity, and 10% attorney’s fees, payable to plaintiffs, and given “ for balance or difference due on one forty-horse Erie City Iron Works engine, one No. 9 forty-five-horse return tubular Erie City Iron Works boiler,” a copy of which note was attached to plaintiffs’ petition. To this petition the defendant filed the following answer:

“ 1st. He admits he is a resident of Randolph county.

“ 2nd.- He…