McEwan v. Ortman

Campbell, J:

Ortman recovered in the court below on a promissory-note made by McEwan. The latter complains, on error, that a valid defense was excluded. The defense there relied on was, that at the time of giving the note, in renewal of which the note in suit was made, it was a matter of pure accommodation, and that at the same time, at Ortman’s request, McEwan signed a land contract for the purchase from Ortman and one William Boeing, of a tract of land for which the purchase price was six thousand dollars, the first installment of fifteen hundred dollars being in the contract declared to…