Singer Manufacturing Co. v. Bennett

Woods, Judos :

On November 11, 1876, Hezekiah Bennett made to R. P. Beatty, agent &e, or order three notes of $400.00 each pay-ablein one, one and a half and two years thereafter with interest, negotiable and payable at the National Exchange Bank of Weston, W. Va, “ being in discharge of the indebtedness of P. W. and li. Bennett to the Singer Manufacturing Company of Richmond, Virginia, ” which were afterwards transferred and delivered by Beatty to said company. At the time of making these notes Hezekiah Bennett was the owner of a valuable farm in Lewis county, containing 268 acres, being all…