Brown v. Moorhead

Tilghman C. J,. delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an action of debt, brought by Samuel Moorhead, the plaintiff below, on a single bill given by Andrew Brown, the defendant below (and plaintiff in error,) to Abraham Sharra, and assigned by Sharra to the plaintiff. As plaintiff took this bill, subject, under our Act of Assembly, to every matter of defence, legal or equitable, which the defendant might have set up against the assignor, the dant, on the trial in the Court below, went into the consideration of the bill, and proved, by parol evidence, that it was given as part of the…