Exchange Bank of Virginia v. County of Lewis

Woods, Judge :

This was an action of assumpsit brought in the circuit court of Lewis county in 1859 by the Exchange Bank of Virginia against Lewis county, to recover the sum of $4,075.04; being the amount ot four negotiable notes made in 1857 by James Bennett, agent for Lewis county, payable in one hundred and twenty days after their respective dates. All of them were in the following form :

“One hundred and twenty days after date I promise to pay to the order of Exchange Bank of Virginia for value received five hundred dollars negotiable and payable without offset at the office of discount and…