Muchmore v. Bates

Debt by Bates against Muchmore on a sealed note for 200 dollars* Pleas, 1st, failure of consideration; 2dly, want of consideration. General demurrer to the pleas, and judgment for the plaintiff below. The defendant appeals.

The first plea states, that the note was given to Bates, in consideration that one Leonard should make the defendant a* good title to a certain tract of land, on or before the 15th of July, 1822; and avers that Leonard, having no title, neither did nor could, on or before that day, or at any time after, make the deed. In this case, the note was payable on the same day on…