Reese v. Cochran

Suit by David Cochran, administrator of the estate of Mary Cochran, deceased, against Reese, upon promissory notes.

Answer, that on the 28th day of August, 1855, Mary Cochran, then the wife of the plaintiff, David, being the owner in her own right, and the payee, of the notes sued on and others, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of 760 dollars, and being upon her death bed, and desirous of disposing of the proceeds of the notes among certain of her friends, delivered the notes to one Elizabeth Mahen, to be by her delivered to the defendant Reese, immediately upon the decease of the said…