Billington v. . Wagoner

This action is brought to recover the amount of a promissory note, made, by the defendants, payable to the plaintiff or bearer, the. defendant James Wagoner being the principal in the note, and the other defendants his sureties. It appeared upon the trial, that after the note became due, about December 1, 1857, it was agreed between the plaintiff and James Wagoner, the principal, in consideration that he, Wagoner, would deliver to the plaintiff a certain fat hog of the value of $11.25, and would release the plaintiff' from the payment of two bushels of potatoes, theretofore sold and delivered…