Hardesty v. Smith

Perkins, J. —

Debt by Hardesty against Smith, upon sealed notes for the payment of money. The notes were made payable to Artemis Wood, and were by him assigned to one Isham, and by said Isham to the plaintiff.

The defendant pleaded — 1. That the sole consideration of said notes ‘‘was the sale and assignment from one Cyrus Isham, to the said defendant, of the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using, and vending to others to be used, a certain supposed improvement in the lamp, described in a certain schedule attached to, and forming a part of, said sale and transfer,…