Coxe v. Downs

This suit is instituted on two promissory notes, drawn by the defendant, payable to the plaintiff, for $1516 66 each, with interest from maturity. The defendant in his answer sets up various defences; among others, that the notes were given to secure the price of a tract of land purchased by him of the plaintiff, being a portion of the Maison Rouge claim, on the Ouachita river. He says that at, and previous to the time of his purchase, the agent of the plaintiff fraudulently represented to him, that he had a regular chain of conveyances from Maison Rouge to himself, and that no other claim…