Hunter v. Leavitt

Action by the appellees against the appellant upon a promissory note executed by the latter to the former.

The defendant answered in three paragraphs. The third paragraph, stating them in their inverse order, was want of consideration; the second, payment; and the first set up, by way of counter claim, in substance, the following facts : that the consideration of thevnote was the manufacturing by the plaintiffs, for the defendant, of fifty fanning mills, known as Griswold’s patent, to be made after a certain pattern mill furnished by the defendant to the plaintiffs, the defendant to furnish…