Parkinson v. Finch

The record shows the following state of facts: That on the 1st day of October, 1869, the appellant executed and delivered to A. P. Jackson his note, payable in six months, for the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, for and in consideration of the sale and conveyance by the said Jackson of the right to vend and use a patented roofing composition in one township in Wells county, Indiana, and two barrels of such composition. The note was upon its face and by its terms negotiable and payable at the First National Bank of Bluffton, with ten per cent, interest. The maker resided in Wells…