Stone v. Kaufman & Co.

This was an action of debt instituted by the appellees, against the appellant, in her representative character, as administratrix of Jefferson Stone, deceased, upon a writing obligatory for a sum certain, executed by Jefferson Stone and Rufus Stone, to Hirsch & Adler, and by them assigned to the plaintiffs in the court below. The ■ defendant filed two pleas of payment: 1st, by Jefferson Stone to Hirsch & Adler when the note fell due; and 2d, payment of Jefferson Stone, after the note fell due, and before the assignment to plaintiffs. To these pleas replications and issues were made up and the…