Osborn v. Nicholson
Supreme Court of the United States
In error to the Circuit Court for the District of Arkansas. The case was argued on both sides interestingly, and with ability and learning.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
stated the case, and delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiff in error brought this suit on the 10th of February, 1869, in that court, and declared upon a promissory note made to him by the defendants in error for $1300, dated March 26th, A.D. 1861, and payable on the 26th day of December following, with interest at the rate of ten per cent, from date. The defendants pleaded that the instrument sued upon was given in consideration of the conveyance of a certain negro slave for life, and none other; and that at the time of the making of the instrument the plaintiff, by his authorized…
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