Walker v. Phillips

The appellee brought his suit in the district court in 1868, against the appellant, on the following instrument in writing, viz.:

“I promise to pay William J. Morgan, Or bearer, the sum of $172, when I collect a note I received from him on William Talbot and John H. Gibson, dated Hovem her 28, 1860. This is to draw ten per cent, interest until paid, from this date, August 8, 1862.

(Signed) “ T. J. Walker.”

The plaintiff alleges in his petition, that for a valúa'1 ble consideration, William J. Morgan, on the twenty-sixth day of September, 1868, transferred the instrument sued on to him, by the…