Mansfield v. Hoagland

It appears that Joseph I. Moore, a resident of the State of Hew Jersey, died intestate, in the month of July, 1849. It also appears, that Joshua J. Moore, previous to his death, was indebted to him in the sum of $1,000, for which he had given his note in May, 1840. That subsequent to the death of Joseph I., his brother-in-law, Joseph C. Hoagland, brought suit on the note in the Circuit Court of the United States, in Illinois, in his own name, to whom he claimed it had been endorsed by the payee in his lifetime. On the 14th of July, 1854, he recovered a judgment on the note, and sued out an…