Laforge v. Mathews

This was an action of debt, upon three promissory notes under seal, commenced by Owen Mathews against John P. Laforge, ip the circuit court of Monroe county.

At the November special term, 1872, of the circuit court, the defendant filed the general issue, and two special pleas, as follows:

“And for further plea in this behalf, defendant says that the plaintiff ought not to have and recover of the defendant $300 of the said sum specified in the said three promissory notes in said declaration mentioned, because he says the consideration for which the said three promissory notes was given has, in…