Baldwin v. Killian

This was an action of assumpsit, brought by appellant in the Clinton circuit court, against appellee, on a promissory note. It appears that appellee gave the note to one John Curtice, who indorsed it to appellant. It also appears the note was given for a patent right seeder, and the right to sell the same in certain named territory. Curtice was to furnish these seeders at Collins’ Station, which was never done. No other consideration was received for the note. A plea of the failure of consideration was the defense interposed; and appellant insisted that he had purchased the note, and it was…