Wallace v. Usher

*508OPINION of the Court, by

Ch. J. Boyle,

This was an action by petition and summons upon a note for the payment of money ; to which the defendant pleaded, that the consideration for which said note was given was not good or valuable in law: upon which issue was joined, and an agreement made by the parties that any spécia.1 matter might he given in evidence. On the trial the defendant read in evidence an act of the legislature, entitled “ an act for the better regulation of the town of Lexington,” approved the 26 th day of January 1811, and the bylaws and ordinances of the town, passed the 2d of…