Hughes v. M'Coun's administrator

*254OPINION of the Court, by

Judge Owsley.

— The; plaintiff in error prosecuted an action at law against toe intestate, upon a bond for lilt. 16s. bearing date the ^arch 1795, and payable the 1st of May thereafter, and after a trial on an issue joined to the plea of payment, recovered judgment for the amount of the ^oa<^ with interest, See. To obtain relief from this judgment the intestate in his lifetime exhibited his bill in chancery, in which he charges, that he paid the plain-tiffin error, in part discharge of the. bond, a negro aaa the pnce of one hundred pounds, and alleges that the plaintiff…