Miller v. Goldthwait

The substance of the complaint is, that one Geegan was indebted to Thornburg for money paid as the security of Geegan; and also on a note for forty-five dollars and *218eighty cents to one Jackson; that Peirce was indebted to Geegan in the sum of one thousand dollars for a note assigned to him on one King, by Geegan; that to pay his indebtedness, Geegan gave the following order to Barley on Peirce:

“Marion, December 23d, 1867.

“Mr. Henry Peirce—You will please to 1 pay to John U. Barley the amount of a judgment rendered at the last term of Grant Circuit Court against one Shadrick Thornburg; also,…