Stanley v. Stanton

Stanton sued Stanley on the 19th day of February, 1870, alleging that in 1848, Seth Cox was indebted to Zachariah Bennett in the sum of one hundred dollars and fifty cents, due on the 25th of December, 1848, and paid the same to the defendant upon his representation that he was authorized, as the agent of Bennett, to receive the same, and on his special agreement that he would pay it to said Bennett, and take up Cox’s note previously given for the same, and then in the hands of Bennett, and return it to Cox, or destroy it; the said Cox relied on the statements and promise of the defendant,…