Bevins v. Cline's Administrator

Suit by John Brother, administrator of the estate of Eliza J. Cline, deceased, against the makers of a note of the following tenor:

“$800. On the 25th day of December, 1855, we promise to pay Eliza J. Cline eight hundred dollars, waiving relief laws of Indiana, for value received, this June 29th, 1854.

“ C. Bevins,

“L. H. Shumway.”

The defendant answered, setting up a failure of consideration, in this, that John Cline and Eliza J. Cline, who was John’s wife, were the equal owners, as joint tenants, of a tract of land; that they united in the sale of it to Charles Bevins, one of the makers of the…