State Bank v. McGuire

This suit was instituted on the 22d of March, 1849, by the Bank against the defendants upon a promissory note for $6,430, purporting to have been executed by them, on the 1st of July, 1843, in favor of the Bank, due twelve months after date, and negotiable and payable at the Branch of the Bank at Batesville. The only material enquiry arises under two of the pleas interposed by the defendants; 1st. Nil clebet sworn to, being the same in effect, under our statutory practice, as non est factum ; 2d that the note in question was given by them without any consideration whatever therefor.

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