Richards v. . Hodges

Civil action to recover the amount of certain notes secured by the defendant to the plaintiff for stock in the Bell-Richards Shoe Company. The defense is that at the time the stock was purchased and the notes given, plaintiff agreed with the defendant that he would accept four notes of the company in full payment and satisfaction of the notes so given for the stock, and that this agreement was afterwards carried out, and the debt, evidenced by the sixteen notes, thereby settled and discharged. The following synopsis of the evidence is taken from the record: Plaintiff and defendant were the…