Keller v. Vowell

This was a petition in debt, on a promissory note, for the sum of $170, brought by the appellee against the appellant, in the Poinsett Circuit Court, to the October term, 1855.

The appellant, at the return- term of the writ, appeared and craved oyer of the note, and interposed three pleas in bar of the action, to wit :

1. That the note was procured by the covin and fraud of the appellee, and not otherwise.

2. That as to $100, part of the note, the appellant employed appellee to purchase an improvement on the public lands, from one Rickies, on his, appellants’ account, appellant giving him at the…