Collier v. Baptist Education Society

Judge Beeok

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This was a petition and summons, brought by the defendants against the plaintiff in error upon the following note:

“Shelby county, ICy., Nov. 23, 1838.

“ I hereby promise to pay to the trustees of the Kentucky Baptist Education Society, or their order, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, as a donation, in five equal annual instalments, the first instalment payable on the first day of January, A. D., eighteen hundred and forty. Michael Collier.”

The defendant filed three pleas, the two first are substantially the same, that the note was obtained…