Timmermeier v. Wolf

This suit is upon two promissory notes, one for $317.25, the other for $451.05, each dated August 17,1892, made by defendant payable to plaintiff one year after date, with interest at eight per cent, if not *452paid within thirty days after maturity. The answer admitted the execution of the notes, but denied that they were unpaid. It further averred that defendant was in possession of plaintiff’s farm, as tenant, under a lease expiring March 1, 1896; that 'while so holding he entered into a verbal contract with plaintiff to surrender said farm, in consideration of which, 'and the doing of certain…