Barker v. Hobbs

Hobbs, as the assignee of Brower, sued Barker upon a promissory note.

Barker answered that the note was given for the last payment of the consideration-money of certain lots in the town of Tipton, which Brower conveyed to him with warranty of title and against incumbrances; that Brower represented to him that he had separated from his wife, and that she had entered into articles of separation with him, by which she had released all claim to dower in said property, which representations were false; that she had been divorced from Brower, by a decree of the Henry Circuit Court; that she…