Rogers v. Perdue

— This was an action- commenced before a justice of the peace, by the assignee against the maker of a promissory note. The note, executed by the defendant, and bearing on its back the assignment of the payee to the plaintiff, reads as follows : “Two months after date, I promise to pay Zachariah Johnson twenty dollars, it being in full for three hundred and fifty bushels of corn. March 21, 1842.” Among other pleas filed before the justice, the defendant pleaded, that the note was given “ in consideration that the plaintiff’s assignor should and would, on or before the 1st -day of June, 1842,…