Campbell v. Read

Fletcher owed Campbell five thousand dollars, and on the day the note fell due, C applied for payment; Fletcher *393agreed to pay in negotiable notes payable in bank, due at a future day, amongst others, one on E. Talbot, for sixteen hundred dollars, which had three months to run; this note had been given for a debt due from Talbot to Fletcher. Campbell agreed to take it at a discount of three or four per cent, per month for the time it had to run, provided Fletcher would give additional endorsers, to secure the debt when due; Fletcher endorsed the note himself, and gave Read and Gray, as the…