Holman v. Bachus

This is an action on a note executed by one Hawkins and defendant, payable to 'plaintiffs’ testator, and tbe only defense, which there was any attempt to prove, was payment. The trial resulted in a judgment for defendant, from which plaintiffs have appealed. Defendant introduced as a witness Mrs. Jones, formerly wife of Hawkins, deceased, one of the makers of the note, who testified that Lazarus Holman came to their house in 1867 or 1868 and staid all night; that he made a calculation of the amount due on the note in suit, which he had not with him, and said to her husband, that there was…