Comparet v. Johnson

Debt by the assignees of a promissory note against the makers. Plea, the general issue. Trial by the Court, and judgment for the plaintiffs. On the trial, the defendants offered to prove that the note was given for the price *64of certain liquors sold by the payee to tlie matters; that tie seller -warranted the liquors to be foreign liquors of good quality, when in truth they were domestic liquors of little or no value. The plaintiffs objecting, the evidence was rejected by the Court. ‘This is the error assigned.

*The note in question not being payable and negotiable at a chartered bank in this…