Vernor v. Coville

This suit was brought in the Superior Court of Detroit upon a promissory note made by the first two defendants to the other, who endorsed it and delivered *197it to the plaintiff, to be held by him as. security for the performance of a contract for the purchase of land by the ■defendant Webster, made with John G. Ruinney as executor of tiie last will of Martha J’. Ruinney, deceased. The declaration was upon the common counts, with the note attached. The defendants pleaded the general issue, and gave notice thereunder that they would show upon the trial that the contract was void for the reason…