Cohee v. Cooper

Assumpsit by the assignee against the maker of promissory notes. The declaration contains two counts each describing a note, and which are alike except in the manner of alleging the assignment. There are four pleas: 1. The general issue; 2. A plea to the first count, which states that before the making of the jpj^te therein declared on, to wit, &c., the defendant made his certain other note in writing promising to pay the plaintiff, twelve months after date, two hundred and fifty dollars; that afterwards, the defendant took up that note and gave for it the note sued on for three hundred…