Heath v. West

The complaint in this case was upon a promissory note for one thousand and four hundred dollars, executed by the defendant, Joseph Heath, on the 28th day of July, 1874, to one John W. Heath, payable on the 1st day of January, 1878, and assigned to the plaintiffs, George E. "West and Hiram W". Chase.

The defendant answered, by way of counter-claim, that, on the day of the date of the note, he and the said John W". Heath entered into a written contract, whereby the latter leased to the former about one thousand and fifty acres of land in Benton county, for five years from March 1st, 1875, for…