Williamson v. Calhoun

1. A plea of payment interposed in a suit on a promissory note, which sets up that the plaintiff, the transferee of the note, was the confidential agent, steward, and factor of the defendant maker of the note, and, as such, had in his possession, custody, and management the defendant’s real and personal property, for the purpose of collecting rents, investing them, and otherwise managing and taking care thereof, and had paid the note sued on with the defendant’s funds which he so held, but, instead of procuring the cancellation of the note, had it transferred to him, and was therefore not the…