Hibbard v. Eastman
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
This is a bill in equity, and the hearing is on a demurrer to the bill. The pleadings are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBellows, J.
The substance of the statements in the bill is, that the defendant, Eastman, having, on the fifteenth day of February, 1866, brought a suit against the complainant upon his three promissory notes of $50 each, secured by a mortgage of a tract of land, the parties met on the next day and made an agreement which was reduced to writing and signed by said Eastman, by which he agreed that if the complainant should, between that time and the next Monday night, bring him George W. Mann’s note for $85, payable in six months, he would discharge the complainant from any farther liability on account of…
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