Crassen v. Swoveland

On the 20th of March, 1858, Benjamin Sivoveland borrowed of Elliott Crassen and Equa Crassen the sum of about 188 dollars, for which he gave them his promissory note for the sum of 200 dollars, payable in sixty days. At the same time Swoveland executed to the Crassens a conveyance in fee simple for eighty acres of land; the conveyance reciting that it was for the consideration of 200 dollars. At the same time the Crassens executed to Sivoveland a bond in the penalty of 500 dollars, conditioned as follows:

“The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas the said obligee has this day…