Hunt v. Brown

The plaintiff made three notes to Russell, the defendant’s intestate. Afterwards, according to the plaintiff’s evidence in the present case, Russell promised that, if the plaintiff would assent to a compromise, by the executors of the plaintiff’s father’s will, of a claim in their hands against third persons, by which compromise the plaintiff's share of his father’s estate would be diminished, Russell would accept in full settlement of the balance due upon the notes whatever percentage the executors should take in settlement of their claim. The executors then settled the claim for sixty-two…