Gilbert v. Cooper

The defendants are sued as sureties on a note drawn by Woodruff and Hughes, to the order of the plaintiffs. They resist the claim on the following grounds : that Woodruff and Hughes, being indebted to the plaintiffs in the sum of $1820, made their note, by which they promised to pay the plaintiffs the sum of $1878 39, thirteen months after the date thereof: that although the note sued on purports to be dated at New York, May 1st, 1837, it was in fact made and executed at Baton Rouge, and was there received by Bayley one of the plaintiffs, who, on the same day, gave to Woodruff and Hughes a…