Homas v. McConnell

OPINION OF THE COURT. This suit is brought on a promissory note to Stittinius & January, for eleven hundred and fifty - four dollars and twenty-six cents, dated at St. Louis, 18th July, 1842, and payable the 26th of October, ensuing; w’hicli note, the plaintiff alleges, was assigned to him on the day of its date. (1) The defendants pleaded the general issue. (2) That when plaintiff bought said note of said Stittinius & January, he also received a note and mortgage upon personal property against Uriah Rapier, of the city of St. Louis, for over one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars, the…