New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad v. Chapman

The defendant is appellant from a judgment rendered against him on two promissory notes, executed by himself, to his own order, and delivered to the plaintiffs. Various grounds of defence are set up in his answer, and two amended answers. In the original answer he admits the execution of the notes, and that he is bound thereon—that he gave them to take up a debt due by his father to the plaintiffs, his father being insolvent; but that the plaintiffs agreed to give him a reasonable time for their payment, and that if this is accorded, he is still willing to pay. In his amended answer he avers,…