Brown v. Hazen

Christiancy J.:

This is a case made after judgment, for a review upon the facts and the law. Brown sued Hazen in assumpsit, upon a promise to pay a note of one Van DerMade. The Court made’ a written finding of facts, and gave judgment for the defendant.

One William Van DerMade was a tenant of defendant, Hazen, working a farm on shares. He had borrowed *220twenty-three dollars of plaintiff Brown, July 1, 1859, for which Brown took his note payable in sixty days, with a chattel mortgage upon his share of the crops and a cow, to secure the same. In September afterwards — but whether before or after…