Gove v. Kendig

This suit was instituted on a note of $ 190 64. The defendant admitted his signature, but averred that the note sued on was given through mistake and error in fact; that there has been an entire want of consideration, as the note was given for the rent of a store, which, for the time for which the note was given, was untenantable, and of no use or value to him. He further pleaded, that the premises, while in the delapidated and unfinished state in which they were during the time that the rent became due, were an absolute damage to him of more than the amount of the note sued on, and that he…