Parsons v. Pendleton & Fishersburg Turnpike Co.

— The appellee, The Pendleton and Fishers-burg Turnpike Company, sued the appellants, George II. Parsons and Hervey Craven, on a promissory note, bearing date the 24th day of January, A. D. 1870, due ninety days after date, for two hundred and thirty-six dollars and forty cents.

The defendants below answered in six paragraphs.

I. That the note was given without any consideration whatever.

2. Setting up a set-off in favor of the defendant Parsons, who was alleged to be the principal in the note.

The third, fourth and sixth paragraphs alleged, each in a somewhat different form, that the note in…