Yancey v. Denham

The complaint is on three promissory notes in separate counts.

The defendants interposed several pleas of res adjudicata setting up, in substance, that the notes were given in one transaction, and represented 'installments of purchase money for a horse; that embodied in the notes was a mortgage on the horse sold and another horse as security for the debt; that after the maturity of the first note this same plaintiff sued these same defendants in a court of competent jurisdiction, joining a count in detinue and a count in assumpsit, both founded on the first maturing mortgage note; and that' in…