Wood v. Kennedy

Suit by Kennedy against Wood, upon a promissory note of this tenor:

“ One day after date, I promise to pay to John Kennedy the sum of three hundred dollars, for value received of him, this 9th day of September, 1861. Valentine Wood.”

The defendant answered, as to seventy-eight dollars and thirty-six cents, part and parcel of the sum of money in the complaint mentioned, that, on the 28th day of February, 1855, at the county, etc., the defendant was indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of three hundred dollars, then due, and that the plaintiff did there exact, for the use and forbearance of the…