Nichols v. . Freeman

On the 1st day of January 1841, the plaintiff purchased of one Sutton “the town lot, house, and furniture” in the town of Windsor, at the price of $8000, and to secure the payment thereof, executed three notes for $2666 each, falling due on the 1st of January 1843, ’3, ’4, and drawing interest from date, and on that day was let into possession. At the same time, Sutton, with the defendant as his surety, executed to the plaintiff a penal bond in the sum of $10,000. The condition, after reciting the contract, the execution of notes for the purchase money, and that the plaintiff was let into…