Truitt v. Truitt

The complaint in this action was as follows: “Minor Truitt, plaintiff) complains of Joshua Truitt, Annie A. Truitt, and Elijah J. Walden, defendants, and says that on the first day of January, in the year 1866, the said defendant, Joshua Truitt, by his note, a copy whereof is herewith filed and made a part of this complaint, promised to pay to the order of the plaintiff the sum of twenty-four hundred dollars, two years after the date thereof, which is now due and wholly unpaid.

*17“ Plaintiff says that on the 20th day of January, in the year 1869, in an action then and theretofore pending in this…