Brown v. Weldon
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Daviess Circuit Court, Hon. Charles H. S. Goodman, Judge. Cause certified to Supreme Court. Statement of case by the court. The plaintiff brought suit against the defendants, upon a promissory note for five hundred dollars, executed by them, payable to the plaintiff in one year from •date.
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Appeal from Daviess Circuit Court, Hon. Charles H. S. Goodman, Judge. Cause certified to Supreme Court. Statement of case by the court. The plaintiff brought suit against the defendants, upon a promissory note for five hundred dollars, executed by them, payable to the plaintiff in one year from •date. Afterward the plaintiff brought suit against the •defendants upon another promissory note, executed by the defendants for the same amount, payable to the-plaintiff two years from date. After the institution of the second suit, the two cases were consolidated, on the-motion of the defendants. The…
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
That portion of the reply struck out by the court constituted, so far as it went, a good defence *259to the new matter set up in the answer. If Christ was the owner of the jack; if the defendant, Weldon, bought the jack from Christ for five hundred dollars ; if the defendants executed their note for said sum in payment of the jack, payable to the plaintiff; if the note was so executed and delivered to the plaintiff under an agreement between Christ, and Virgin & Brown, that they would give Christ credit for the face of the note on an existing indebtedness from Christ to them ; if, in…
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