Stanford v. Davis

Suit by Thomas Stanford, the payee, against Charles K. Davis and Isaac C. Hurst, the payors, of a promissory note for eight hundred and thirty-nine dollars and thirty-one cents, dated Noblesville, August 25th, 1868, and payable forty months after date.

The defendants answered in six paragraphs.

1. "Want of consideration.

2. Failure of consideration.

The third, fourth, fifth and sixth paragraphs were, severally, answers, substantially, of failure of consideration, each varying somewhat from the others in its statement of the facts showing failure.

They all averred that the note sued on was the last…