Leas v. Grubbs

This is a suit by the plaintiffs, Isaac Leas and Wm. H. France against Robert M. Grubbs and Joseph Kline, on a promissory note made by the defendants to the plaim tiffs, on the 26th day of January, 1872.,

The defendant, Grubbs, suffered a default.

The defendant, Kline, answered that the note was given for a certain patent right, which the plaintiffs represented they were the sole owners of, when in fact they had before that time «conveyed a one-half interest in the patent to one A. C. Ball.

To this answer it was replied that a contract was made granting to Ball a one-half interest, but that in…