Glover v. Jennings

This was an action of debt on a promissory note brought by Jennings, assignee of the payee against the makers. The note is for $850, dated the 28th of May, 1839, and payable twelve months after date. It was made negotiable and payable at the branch at New Albany of the State Bank of Indiana, and was assigned before it became due, viz., on the 14th of June, 1839.

There are eleven special pleas in bar. One is, that the *12note was executed without any consideration. Four of *them are, that the note was obtained by the payee from the defendants by fraud, covin, and misrepresentation ; one of which…