Hines v. McCormick

Opinion by

Judge Cofer :

That $4,500 was the price agreed to be paid by the appellant for the Wilson notes is established by a decided preponderance of the evidence. This being established, it is not very material whether the receipt of the 6th of January, 1865, was fairly or unfairly obtained, or whether it was written as it now is, or has been changed since. There is no pretense that the whole debt has been paid, except on the assumption that the price agreed to be paid was $3,000, instead of $4,500, as we adjudged it to have been.

The effort to show that the arrangement between the parties…