Powell v. Swan's Administrator

Judge Ewing

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The administrator of Swan filed his bill alleging that, on the 9th of November, 1821, Lazarus Powell executed his note to the intestate, payable one day after date, for the sum of one thousand and forty-two dollars sixty-three cents; that it was still unpaid; that the signature and seal had been tom off, by Powell, or by some casualty, so that it does not appear in what year it was executed.

It is also charged, that Harrison Powell was indebted to his intestate, in the sum of about four hundred dollars; that the note was surrendered up, on Lazarus…