Curran v. Curran

This was an action by the appellee, as administrator of the estate of Thomas Curran, deceased, against James G. Curran, the appellant. The complaint consisted. *474of eleven paragraphs. The first and second were based upon a promissory note executed by the appellant to the decedent, on the ist day of June, 1864, payable one day after date, for the sum of two thousand dollars, conditioned that the same was “ to be collected by the payee in his lifetime, or not to be collected at all.” These paragraphs alleged the execution of the note; the death of the payee, on the 2d day of August, 1868; that…