Wait v. . Green

This is an appeal from a judgment ordered for the Defendant at General Term. The case is this: Catharine Cor-wins sold and delivered a horse to Thomas E. Billington, and took his note for $100, at five months, with interest, payable at the Union bank, Watertown. Directly under the note, and on the same piece of paper, was a memorandum signed by Billington, as follows: “ Given for one bay horse. The said Mrs. Corwins holds the said horse as her property until the above note is paid.” Mrs. Corwins transferred the note, with the memorandum underwritten, before due, to the Plaintiff, calling his…