Miller v. Wells

This was an action of assumpsit, an a promissory note executed by Mercie H. 'Miller and Thomas C. Thompson to Isaac Wells and John Sears, for the sum of $350, due in sixty days, and bearing date on the 17th of September, 1860. The declaration contained a special count on the note and the nsual common counts. .Defendant Mercie H. Miller, filed the general issue and three special pleas. Thompson was not served with process. The first of these averred, that Mercie H. Miller was administratrix of J. 0. Miller, dec’d; that as such, she had a large claim against plaintiffs for an amount largely…