Jackson v. Williams

The plaintiff furnished and put up for the defendants a sugar mill and steam engine, in the year 1845, for a price payable in several instal-ments, running from January, 1846, to January, 1848. This suit was brought in June, 1853, for a balance due of about two thousand dollars, with interest. The defendants plead that they had delegated one Holcombe to pay in their place the debt due plaintiff under their said contract; that Holcombe assumed and promised to pay for said engine, and the plaintiff agreed to accept him as his debtor in the stead and place of defendants; that Holcombe…